§ 23. — Length of claims on veins or lodes.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC23]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes
Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place
bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable
deposits, located prior to May 10, 1872, shall be governed as to length
along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at
the date of their location. A mining claim located after the 10th day of
May 1872, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall
not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or
lode; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the
discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No
claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the
middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any
mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the
middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing
on the 10th day of May 1872 render such limitation necessary. The end
lines of each claim shall be parallel to each other.
(R.S. Sec. 2320.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2320 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 2, 17
Stat. 91.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40,
42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 sections 460mm-1,
539m-2; title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732.
