Other:
Additional location certificate (amendment) and relocation provided for.
Annual labor: Affidavits provided to be recorded with the county clerk within 60 days after completion.
Surface owners: Security from the miner provided.
Penalties are provided for force or threats by two or more persons destroying mining property, including notices and amendments, and defrauding, cheating or swindling, the latter being a felony.
Survey-Legal Interrelationships
1–47 The mineral surveyor and the cadastral surveyor responsible for processing mineral surveys must be thoroughly familiar with both federal and state law relating to the appropriation of minerals on the public domain.
The mineral surveyor may be the first detailed contact of the claimant with a government official, and he will look to the mineral surveyor for guidance through the first steps to obtaining patent, i.e., the survey, including discovery and work requirements.
If the location does not meet the requirements set forth in the law, the mineral surveyor may suggest the corrective steps necessary, including an amended location. If the location certificate is too vague, an amended certificate will be in order. If the development work includes improvements that will not count as patent expenditure or if common improvements will not meet the tests set forth in the chapter on mineral surveys in the Manual of Surveying Instructions, the mineral surveyor should discuss the matter with the claimant and suggest corrective measures.
The matter of a valid discovery or what constitutes sufficient mineral for patent is a complicated matter. While the mineral surveyor may discuss the subject in generalities, as set forth in the next chapter, it is not his duty to rule on it, this being a matter for the mineral examiner and adjudicators to determine. He may guide the claimant in properly locating and surveying his claims for patent.