Discovery or Location Work: None required. Law amended in 1971.
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Lode Claims:
Location notice to be posted at the place of discovery on discovery monument, containing name of lode, name of locator(s), date of discovery, feet in length on each side of discovery and feet in width on each side of lode.
Monumentation: Eight substantial posts hewed or blazed on the side facing claim, one at each corner, one at each end of the lode and one at the center of each side line, sunk in the ground, or in mound of stone if on bedrock, marked with the name of the lode and the corner, end or side.
Recording: Sixty days from date of discovery file for record with the county register of deeds a location certificate containing the same information as in the location notice, except date of location instead of date of discovery, and in addition the general course of the vein and a description with reference to a natural object or permanent monument.
Placer and other mining claims:
No state law.
Other:
Additional certificate and relocation, both by owner and abandoned claims, provided for.