Show MINING LAWS united states Ariz arizona california nevada colorado idaho and utah arizona laws see also TJ S laws sections 1772 1773 1779 1774 1775 and 1776 provides for summary sales of mining claims and interests therein belonging to estates by order of probate court sections 2013 2014 2015 2016 and 2017 provide for optional Option ul sales on mines by guardians etc section 2746 provides that injunctions against working mines shall only be granted upon notice 2904 all miners laborers and others who may labor and all persons who may furnish material of any kind designed or used in or upon any mine or mining claim and to whom may labor and all persons who may furnish material of any kind designed or used in or upon any mine or mining in claim and to whom any sum is due for such lab labor or or material shall have a lien upon the same for such sums as are unpaid 2131 section 1 on the discovery of mineral in place on the public domain of the united states the same may be located as a mining claim by the discoverer for himself or for himself and others or for others sec 2 such location shall be made by erecting at or contiguous to the point of discovery a conspicuous monument of stones not less than three feet in height or an upright post securely fixed projecting at least four feet above the ground in which monument of stones or on which post there shall be posted a location notice which shall be signed by the name or names of the locator or locators the location notice must contain 1 the name of the claim located 2 the name or names of the locators 3 the date of the locations 4 the length and width of the claim in feet and the distance in feet from the point of discovery to each end of the claim 5 the general course of the claim 6 the locality of the claim with reference to some natural object or permanent monument whereby the claim can be identified sec 3 until each and all of the above specified things shall have been done no right thereto shall have been acquired sec 4 from the time of the location of a mining claim as above specified the locator shall be allowed ninety days within which to do or cause to be done the following things 1 to cause to be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the cl aimIs claim clairis is situated a copy of the location notice 1 I 2 to sink a discovery shaft in the claim to a depth of at least ten feet from the low est part of the rim of the shaft at the sur face and deeper if necessary until there is disclosed in said shaft mineral in place 3 to monument the claim on the ground so that its boundaries can be easily ditc itc traced 1 sec 5 the failure to do all 1 the things enumerated in this section in the time and place specified shall be construed into an abandonment of the claim and all right and claim thereto of the discoverer and locator shall be forfeited sec 6 such surface boundary shall be marked by six substantial posts projecting at least four feet above the surface of the ground or by substantial stone monuments at least three feet high to wit one at each corner of said claim and one at the center of each end line thereof sec 7 any open cut adit or tunnel which shall be made as above provided for as a part of the location of a lode mining claim and which shall be equal in amount of work to a shaft ten feet deep and four feet wide by six feet long and which shall cut a lode or mineral in place at a depth of ten feet from the surface shall be equivalent as a discovery work to a shaft sunk from the surface sec 8 location notices may be amended at any time and the monuments changed to correspond with the amended location provided that no change shall be made that will interfere with the rights of others to be continued |