Show RECENT MINING DECISIONS compiled for the mining review jil luing lease where a mining lease contract plainly fixed the price to be paid for ore ord to be as scheduled and announced by the lessor parol evidence is inadmissible to show that the parties intended that the pre prevailing prevails vaili ng market macket price for ores should govern wolf tongue mining alining co v hinman supreme court of colorado pacific 16 mineral 1 rights include oil and ami gp gas where a landowner conveyed all of the mineral right and coal privileges together with the right to search for all undiscovered minerals such right was a conveyance of all the minerals in the land and included oil and gas scott v laws court of appeals of kentucky southwestern 81 only known lodes excluded from pl placer n er claims under rev st 2333 comp st g 1632 relating to placer claims it is only veins or lodes the existence of which Is known at the time of application for the placer patents that are excepted in the event they are not applied for and granted upon the additional payment required south butte mining co vs thomas U S circuit court of appeals federal questioning onius validity of senior location where the notice of location of a mining c claim la I 1 in states that it is a relocation of a former named location the validity of the prior location is admitted but where the notice of location does not state that it is a relocation the junior locator may defend upon a the invalidity of the senior location and b the failure of the senior locator to do the required amount of assessment work and by interposing the defense of failure to do the required amount of assessment work the junior locator does not sacrifice his right to question the validity of the senior location on the ground of failure to comply with the requirements of the federal stat statute starlite lite in making the location blake v cavins supreme court of new mexico pacific improvement work it is purely a question of fact whether or not development work done in a particular shaft by the locator of claims aims so tended to improve the entire group of claims as to prevent forfeiture thereof improvement work within the meaning of the federal statute as to the location of mining claims is deemed to have been pey performed formed whether the claim consists of bf one ofle location or several when in fact the labor is performed or the improvements are made for the development of the whole claim that is to facilitate cili tate the extraction of metals though the labor and improvements may be on ground originally part of only one of the locations and it is not nece necessary s sary that the work iman manifestly if tend to the development of all the claims in the group manifest meaning evident or obvious to the mind love v mt alt oddie united mines co supreme court of nevada pacific |