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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.
A mining claim is the claim of the right to extract minerals from a tract of public land. In the United States, the practice began with the California gold rush of 1849. In the absence of organized government, the miners in each new mining camp made up their own rules, and to a large extent adopted Mexican mining law.
The Mount Baker area was flooded with prospectors which led to the staking of many claims both patented and unpatented. The most notable mines staked soon after the Lone Jack are the Boundary Red Mountain Mine, Garget Mine (a.k.a. Gold Run Mine), Gold Basin Mine, Silver Tip Mine, and the Evergreen Mine. [1] [2] [3]
Gold mining is one of the most common uses for the staking of mining claims. In Alaska, state mining claims may be up to 160 acres (0.65 km 2), and there is no distinction between lode or placer claims. The boundaries of the claim must follow the 4 cardinal directions, with an exception being adjustments for existing valid claims.
The Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA) is an organization dedicated to finding and mining gold on a small or recreational scale. [1] It has gold claims across America and members can work the claims for a yearly fee. As of December 2024, the club had over 200 places to find gold, making up more than 90,000 gold-bearing acres.
The repository is constantly seeking donations of mine maps to add to the microfilm/digital collection. [12] When maps are received from a donor, they are scanned and stored in both microfilm and digital archives. The maps, along with a scanned images (upon request), are returned to the donor. The repository does not retain hard copies of maps.
The owner of a patented claim can put it to any legal use. The process of patenting claims has been perhaps the most controversial part of the mining law. Because of a Congress-imposed moratorium, the federal government has not accepted any new applications for mining claim patents since October 1, 1994. [26]
A patented mining claim is one for which the federal government has passed its title to the claimant, making it private land. [13] A contiguous package of 850 unpatented lode mining claims with an aggregate area of approximately 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) surrounds the core of patented claims.