Fact mine-025
newrecordconfirmed Federal law: a new claim must be filed with BLM within 90 days of staking, or it is treated as abandoned
43 U.S.C. 1744 (FLPMA sec. 314) requires a claim's owner, for any claim located after 21 October 1976, to file a copy of the recorded location notice with BLM within ninety days of location, and to file each year, before 31 December, in both the county office where the location notice is recorded and BLM's designated office. Failing to file is deemed conclusively to be abandonment of the claim.
In plain termsOnce a claim is staked, the claimant has 90 days to register it with BLM, or the claim is treated as abandoned. So markers staked recently may not show on BLM's map yet (mine-002), and BLM can take longer still to map a claim after it is filed (mine-045).
- 43 U.S.C. 1744: Recordation of mining claims (FLPMA sec. 314) (Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House, 1976-10-21) primary government “shall be deemed conclusively to constitute an abandonment of the mining claim”