Keeping your Gold Claim

It is necessary to invest something on your claim at least once a year. The maintenance which is known as the assessment work will not require a great amount of maintenance; it should only take around one hundred dollars worth. The work done needs to be done finished on or before the afternoon on the first of September of every year. If one is interested in their claim, they need to do this in order to protect their right against getting jumped or location by other people. This assessment work will need to be worked on and one can do this by filing in the County Recorder’s or another office every year through a statement with the Bureau of Land Management unless there are other specific indications according to the law of the state or county you are in. The requirement of assessment can be carried out, incidentally, by carrying out geological, geophysical, and geochemical surveys. These need to be done by experts that are qualified and need to be confirmed by a report that needs to be filed in the county or in the recording district office in the place where the claim is located. This report needs to consist of the following:

• The exact spot of the work as far as the discovery point is concerned and the boundaries of the claim.
• The nature, area, and cost of the work.
• The main findings in the work area.
• The name, address and title of the people or person that has carried out the work.

This type of survey might not be applicable for labor for over a couple years in a row or for over a complete amount of five years on any one mining claim. The surveys cannot be repeated either. And, this type of survey will not apply toward the statutory provision that has need of the cost of five hundred dollars per claim for mineral patent. While on the subject, there is one flaw in the law that after one has filed to carry out the annual assessment work, the work can be taken over again if it is carried out before another person relocates the claim.

State mining laws
The mining laws of the United States are complemented almost everywhere by the statues of the states. These statues indicate certain type of things like that of locating a claim, how to mark the boundaries, how to record the notices of location and the yearly assessment work, the size of the pits and shafts, and so forth. Given that these laws and requirements change from place to place and jurisdiction to jurisdiction, one will need to make sure to ask for extra information from the local offices of the state just in case.