Apr 10, 2024 | Exploration, Exploration Claim Staking
Written by: Bruno Hegner The General Mining Law of 1872 allows an individual to locate mining claims on land owned by the Federal government. The interest is “self-initiated”; no act of the Federal government is necessary to establish the right. The locator has a... 
Jan 21, 2016 | Mine Planning
Locatable minerals are claimable under the General Mining Act of 1872. Metals, including placer and lode gold, are locatable under the General Mining Act of 1872 What are locatable minerals? The General Mining Law of 1872, as amended, opened the public lands of the...