Private Lands: Owners may make regulations, not in conflict with laws of the United States or New Mexico; governing the location of mining claims and file for record with county clerk.
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Lode Claims:
Location Notice: to be posted at point of discovery containing name of lode, name of locator(s), date of discovery, length, in feet, each way from discovery, and width, in feet, on each side of lode. Width limited by state law to 150 feet on each side of lode; may be modified by county.
Discovery Work: Shaft, cut or tunnel at a depth sufficient to disclose the vein or lode, or adit ten feet along vein or lode, or drill hole, not less than one and one-half inches in diameter and of sufficient depth to reach, cut or expose vein or lode. Work to be completed within sixty days from time of uncovering or disclosing a lode (posting).
Monumentation: Eight substantial posts, hewed or blazed on the side facing the claim, marked with the name of lode and corner, end of lode, or side center sunk in ground or in monument of stone.
Recording: Within sixty days file for record with the county register of deeds a location certificate containing, in addition to information in location notice, the general course of the vein, and date of location.
Placer and Other Mining Claims:
No state law.