Claims-Thousands Of Acres Non- Expert Witness, LOL ( Hypers beware, I witness you- I am not PERFECT!!! ! I was so rich that I didn't use Fedex, Airborn or DHL...LOL...I used Priority Mail and that Tracking Receipt...thrifty is as thrifty DOES! ): Must of been that other Brother Arron who didn't signupright with the Phone card extraMinutes!)
USPS-PPS: Looks like I wasn't hard up on funds:
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Hey OUR 340 acres of WMA8 Nevada Placer/Hard Rock claims just made it in for renewal:
You entered 03047990000201944529
Your item was delivered at 6:44 am on August 30 in RENO NV 89520.
Thousands of acres of AZ( AZ= Arizona ) claims made it yesterday, LOL 480 acres ...
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3047990000201944536 Opps:
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Your item was accepted at 2:22 pm on August 27 in EAST BRIDGEWATER MA 02333. It is enroute to its delivery destination.
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AZ delivered NOW-
You entered 03047990000201944536
Your item was delivered at 7:49 am on August 30 in PHOENIX AZ 85004.
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( Oh, may there ois not a 460 acre limit!!! ! )
HOW MANY: There is no limit to the number of claims and sites that may be held by a claimant.
TYPES OF MINING CLAIMS AND SITES: There are two types of mining claims: lode and placer. There are two other types of mineral entries, mill sites and tunnel sites.
Lode Claims: Deposits subject to lode claims include classic veins or lodes having well-defined boundaries. They also include other rock inplace bearing valuable minerals and may be broad zones of mineralized rock. Examples include quartz or other veins bearing gold or other metalic minerals and large volume, but low-grade disseminated metallic deposits. Lode claims are usually described as parallelograms with the longer side lines parallel to the vein or lode (see Figure 1). Descriptions are by meetes and bounds surveys (i.e., giving the length and direction of each boundary line). Federal statute limits their size to a maximum of 1,500 feet in length along the vein or lode. The end lines must be parallel to qualify for underground extralateral rights. Extralateral rights involve the rights to minerals that extend at depth beyond the vertical boundaries of the claim.
Placer Claims: Mineral deposits subject to placer claims include all those deposits not subject to lode claims. Originally, these included only deposits of unconsolidated materials (e.g., sand and gravel) containing free gold or other minerals. By Congressional acts and judicial interpretations, many nonmetallic bedded or layered deposits (e.g., gypsum and high calcium limestone) are also considered placer deposits.
Placer claims, where practicable, are located by legal subdivision (i.e., the E 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4, Section 2, Township 10 South, Range 21 East, Mount Diablo Base Meridian). The maximum size of a placer claim is 20 macres per locator (see Figure 2). An association of two locators may locate 40 acres, and three may locate 60 acres, etc. The maximum area of an association placer claim is 160 acres for eight or more persons.
The maximum size of a placer claim for corporations is 20 acres per claim. Corporations may not locate association placer claims unless they are in association with other private individuals or other corporations as co-locators.
Mill Sites: A mill site must be located on NONMINERAL land. Its purpose is to either: (1) support a lode or placer mining claim operation or (2) support itself independent of any particular claim. A mill site must include the erection of a mill or reduction works and/or may include other uses reasonably incident to the support of a mining operation. Descriptions of mill sites are by metes and bounds surveys or, more commonly, by legal subdivision. The maximum size of a mill site is five acres (see Figure 2).
Tunnel Sites: A tunnel site may be used where a tunnel is run to develop a vein or lode. It may also be used for the discovery of unknown or "blind" veins or lodes. To stake a tunnel site in Nevada, stakes are placed at 300-foot intervals for up to 3,000 feet on the line of the proposed tunnel. Recordation is the same as a lode claim, but tunnel sites may not be patented.
An individual may locate lode claims to cover any or all blind (i.e., not known to exist) veins or lodes intersected by the tunnel. The maximum distance these lode claims may exist is 1,500 feet on either side of the centerline of the tunnel. This, in essence, gives the mining claimant the right to prospect an area 3,000 feet wide and 3,000 feet long. Any mining claim located for a blind lode discovered while driving a tunnel relates back in time to the date of location of the tunnel site.
FEDERAL LANDS OPEN TO MINING: There are Federally administered lands in 19 states where you may locate a mining claim or site. These states are Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. In these states, the BLM manages the surface of public lands and the Forest Service manages the surface od National Forest System (NFS) lands. The BLM is responsible for the subsurface on both public and NFS lands.
You may prospect and locate claims and sites on public and NFS lands open to mineral entry. Claims may not be located in areas
closed to mineral entry by a special act of Congress, regulation, or public land order. These areas are said to be "withdrawn" from mineral entry.
Areas withdrawn from location of mining claims include National Parks, National Monuments, Indian reservations, most reclamation projects under the Bureau of Reclamation, military reservations, scientific testing areas, most wildlife protection areas managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and lands withdrawn from mineral entry for other reasons, such as Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in southern Nevada. Lands withdrawn for power development may be subject to mining entry and claim location only under certain conditions. Mining claims may not be located on lands that have been: (1) designated by Congress as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System, (2) designated as a wild portion of a Wild and Scenic River, or (3) withdrawn by Congress for study as a Wild and Scenic River.
There is usually a 1/4-mile buffer zone withdrawn from location of mining claims on either side of a river while the river is being studied for inclusion in the Wild and Scenic River System. Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System are withdrawn to mining claim location at the time of designation by Congress. Mining activities are permitted only on those mining claims that can show proof of discovery either (1) by December 31, 1983, or (2) on the date of designation as wilderness by Congress.
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