California Public Resources Code CHAPTER 1 - Manner of Locating Mining Claims, Tunnel Rights, and Millsites

• Section 3900.
  Any person, who is a citizen of the United States or who has declared his or her intention to become a citizen, and who discovers...
• Section 3901.
  The locator of any lode mining claim shall define the boundaries of the claim so that they may be readily traced, but in no case...
• Section 3902.
  The location of a placer claim shall be made in the following manner:(a) By erecting at the point of discovery thereon a conspicuous and substantial monument,...
• Section 3903.
  The relocation of any lode or placer mining location which is subject to relocation shall be made as an original location is required to be...
• Section 3904.
  As to any placer mining claim which has been otherwise validly located or relocated since July 20, 1935, and as to which claim the locator...
• Section 3905.
  The failure or neglect of the locator or locators to comply with the requirements of Section 3900, 3901, or 3903 shall render the location null...
• Section 3906.
  The locator of a tunnel right or location shall locate his or her tunnel right or location by erecting at the face or point of...
• Section 3907.
  The boundary lines of the tunnel shall be established by conspicuous and substantial monuments placed along the lines on the surface at an interval of...
• Section 3908.
  If at any time the locator of any mining claim, or his or her assigns, apprehends that his or her original location notice was defective,...
• Section 3909.
  Where a locator, or his or her assigns, has the boundaries and corners of his or her claim established by a United States deputy mineral...
• Section 3910.
  The proprietor of a vein or lode claim or mine, the proprietor of a placer claim, or the owner of a quartz mill or reduction...
• Section 3911.
  Within 90 days after the posting of his or her notice of location upon a lode mining claim, placer claim, tunnel right or location, or...
• Section 3912.
  The amount of work done, improvements made, or maintenance fee paid to the Bureau of Land Management in the United States Department of Interior during...
• Section 3913.
  (a) Whenever labor is performed, improvements are made, or a maintenance fee is paid as required by law upon any mining claim, the person on whose...
• Section 3914.
  The board of supervisors, may require, by resolution, that any person filing an affidavit pursuant to Section 3913 or any person filing a notice of...
• Section 3915.
  (a) The following are the only monuments which may be used pursuant to this chapter: (1) A wooden post not less than 11/2 inches in diameter projecting...
• Section 3916.
  Any person who takes down, removes, alters, or destroys any stake, post, monument, or notice of location upon any mining claim which is required by...
• Section 3917.
  Whenever a coowner or coowners of a mining claim give to a delinquent coowner or coowners the notice in writing or notice by publication provided...
• Section 3918.
  The original of the notice and affidavit, or a duly certified copy of the record thereof, shall be prima facie evidence that the delinquent mentioned...
• Section 3919.
  If the delinquent, within the 90 days required by Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, contributes to his or her coowner...
• Section 3920.
  If the coowner fails to sign and deliver the writing to the delinquent within 20 days after the contribution, the coowner so failing is liable...
• Section 3921.
  The record of any location of a mining claim, millsite, or tunnel right in the office of the county recorder, as provided in this chapter,...
• Section 3922.
  Copies of the records of all instruments required to be recorded by this chapter, duly certified by the recorder in whose custody the records are,...
• Section 3923.
  This chapter does not in any manner affect or abolish any mining district or the rules and regulations thereof within the state.(Added by Stats. 1988,...
• Section 3924.
  Whenever any mining district in this state, organized or created under the laws of the United States, is dissolved, the officers or custodians of the...

Last modified: October 22, 2018