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Mining claim posted: NO Prospecting, Panning, Sluicing ... South Yuba River, California 2011 photo. A mining claim is the right to explore for and extract minerals from a tract of land. [19] Claim staking is the required procedure of marking the boundaries of the mining claim, typically with wooden posts or substantial piles of rocks. [20]
The nature of business as listed on the companies Articles of Incorporation: 'A general mining, milling and smelting business, buying, selling, bonding, etc., mines, mining claims, water rights, ores and bullion; building roads, etc.; to acquire mining property water rights, etc., and to work the same; to mine for gold, silver, copper, etc.; to ...
To raise money for the endeavor, a public company known as the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company was decided to form. [2] [3] The company was officially organized in March 1901 in Arizona. Its original holdings consisted of 10 patented mining claims totaling 178 acres adjacent to the Copper Queen Mine near Bisbee, Arizona.
The town of Congress with the mine in the background, c. 1914 The Congress Mine is a gold mine located at the ghost town of Congress, Arizona, on the southeastern slope of the Date Creek Mountains, approximately 18 miles north-northeast of Wickenburg, Arizona, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet (Lat. 34.216 – Long. -122.841).
The ADMMR engages in technical research, field investigations, education, and information dissemination. As one of its educational activities, it operated the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum until July 2010, when responsibility for the museum was transferred to the Arizona Historical Society pursuant to a state law enacted in May 2010. [2]
The town of Spenazuma was part of an elaborate swindle by an east coast con man, Richard C. Flower, to sell shares in the Spenazuma Mining Company.In 1898, Flower bought some nearby mining claims, laid out the townsite of Spenazuma, and sold shares in eastern states on the pretense that the Spenazuma Mining Company owned gold mines of immense value.
The law covers mining for uranium, gold, silver, copper and other precious metals, but excludes coal and petroleum. ... Kyle Kimmerle, whose family owns more than 100 uranium mining claims in Utah ...
January 1933, a Mining electrician named J.A. "Tex" Bradford of Globe Arizona went in search of the "Lost Dutchman Mine"; by October 1933, he had been missing for nine months. [ 31 ] In his 1945 book about the Lost Dutchman's mine, Thunder God's Gold , Barry Storm (pen name of John Griffith Climenson) claimed to have narrowly escaped from a ...