Title 47 — MINES AND MINING

47-601. Mining claim locations authorized. Persons are authorized to locate mining claims upon that public domain in the state of Idaho which is open to location under the mining laws of the United States. The location of a mining claim shall be made by posting notice of location…

47-602. Method of locating mining claim. The locator of a mining claim must at the time of making his location designate his claim by posting at one (1) corner of the claim his notice of location in writing in which there shall be stated: 1. The name of the locator or locators. 2…

47-604. Notice must be recorded. Within ninety (90) days after the location of the claim the locator or his assigns must file for record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the claim is situated, a copy of his notice of location. Failure to file notice of …

47-605. Record of additional certificate. If at any time the locator of any mining claim heretofore or hereafter located, or his assigns, shall apprehend that his original certificate was defective, erroneous, or that the requirements of the law had not been complied with before …

47-606. Affidavit of performance of labor — Notice of acceptance of waiver, suspension or extension — Fees — Effect as evidence. Within sixty (60) days after any time set or period allowed for the performance of labor, or making improvements upon any lode or placer claim, the per…

47-607. Location of abandoned claim. The location of abandoned claims shall be done in the same manner as if the location were of a new claim including the erection of new posts or monuments.

47-608. Notice must claim only one location. No location notice shall claim more than one location, whether the location is made by one or several locators, and if it purport to claim more than one location it is absolutely void.

47-609. Security to surface owners — Injunction. When the right to mine is in any case separate from the ownership or right of occupancy of the surface ground, the owners or rightful occupants of the surface ground may demand satisfactory security from the miners, and if it be re…

47-611. Affidavit of locators. At or before the time of presenting a location notice for record, whether it be for a quartz lode or placer claim, one (1) of the locators named in the same must make and subscribe an affidavit, in writing on or attached to the notice, substantially…

47-612. Manner of recording notices. The location notice herein required to be recorded must be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the claim is located (when the legal fee therefor is tendered), in a book kept for that purpose. Said book must be …

47-613. Certain surveys may qualify as annual labor. Annual assessment work or labor upon a mining claim as required by the United States mining laws shall be defined to include, without being limited to, geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys conducted by qualified expe…

47-614. Definitions. As used in section 47-613: (1) the term "geological surveys" means surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of geology as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposi…

47-618. Lode and placer claims — Official patent survey as labor on improvement. It is hereby declared that an official patent survey of a lode or placer mining claim or claims by a United States mineral surveyor constitutes and is labor performed upon an improvement made upon or…

47-619. Lode and placer claims — Official patent survey as credit on annual assessment work. An official patent survey of a lode or placer mining claim or claims by a United States mineral surveyor may be credited to annual assessment work or labor, but in no case shall the credi…