by OKJohn » Fri Nov 27, 2015 7:02 pm
Some of the laws have become adjustable by the bureaucrats, leaving us miners in the dark as to what we are "supposed" to do. When I filed my last claim notice in Colorado, the county clerk's office said they would no longer record placer notices until after the BLM had done their due diligence to verify that the land was open and available. The county clerk was clueless. I talked to the state BLM office about it, and they just laughed. BLM processed it first, and then I sent to county. All was well. Luckily no one else filed for the area during that period, or it could have gotten ugly.
Laws that are selectively enforced are the most dangerous kinds. Seems those are the common ones in mining, because few people really know the miners' rights (including county/state/federal officials).