Marking a Gold Claim & Recording a Claim

Marking a Gold Claim
The Federal laws are specific in that only a claim needs to be marked in a unique enough way so that it can be easily identified. Nonetheless, every state usually has detailed and dissimilar requirements for marking the boundaries. In most cases there they at least as that all four corners of the lode or placer claim, unless it has been found by legal subdivision, needs to be marked with posts or stone monuments. The point of discovery of either the lode or placer claims needs to be marked by some sort of monument or post. This location notice needs to be placed in or on the marker and should give specific information on the claim. This type of procedure identifies and establishes the boundaries of the claim and provides others with notification of the claim. The more the boundaries have been marked, and the more enforced the state laws stick to it, there are less chances your claim will be jumped, or taken over by others.

How to record a claim
Every state has established their own and very specific measures for receiving and recording location notices. The notices are for the most part filed with the County Recorder’s office in the county in which the finding has been made. There are only certain occasions in which the location notices by law need to be filed with the Bureau of Land Management; however this is not a common occurrence. In these circumstances, copies need to be filled in the same place for recordings as the law requires. In the case of any claim that is located in a National Forest Wilderness, the Forest Supervisor or District Ranger who have authority over the land need to be notified in writing after thirty days the area has been located.