A. Any person or persons desiring to locate a mining claim upon a vein or lode of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper or other valuable deposit must distinctly mark the location on the ground by four substantial posts or monuments, one at each corner of the claim, […]
The surface boundaries of mining claims heerafter [hereafter] located shall be marked by four substantial posts or monuments, one at each corner of such claim, so as to distinctly mark the claim on the ground, so that its boundaries can be readily traced, and shall otherwise conform to Section 69-3-1 NMSA 1978. History: Laws 1889, […]
The relocation of any mining ground, which is subject to relocation, shall be made in the same way as an original location is required by law to be made. History: Laws 1889, ch. 25, § 3; C.L. 1897, § 2300; Code 1915, § 3449; C.S. 1929, § 88-105; 1941 Comp., § 67-205; 1953 Comp., § […]
A. If at any time the owner of any mining claim heretofore or hereafter located, or his assigns, shall apprehend that the original notice of location is defective, erroneous or the requirement of law has not been complied with before filing, or shall be desirous of changing his surface boundaries or to take in any […]
The owner of an unpatented lode or placer mining claim shall, prior to December 31 of each year following the calendar year in which such claim was located, file for record in the office of the clerk of the county in which the mining claim is located either a notice of intention to hold the […]
Any person who shall take down, remove, alter or destroy any stake, post, monument or notice of location upon any mining claim without the consent of the owner or owners thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars [($100)] or by […]
Any person or persons, or the manager, officer, agent or employe [employee] of any person, firm, corporation or association, who shall in any manner alter, deface or change the location notice of any mining claim in this state, located under the laws of the United States and of this state, or any local regulations in […]
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1981, ch. 310, § 7, repealed 69-3-15 to 69-3-17 NMSA 1978, relating to annual labor and evidence of assessment work, effective May 20, 1981. For present provisions, see 69-3-12.1 NMSA 1978.
In addition to the provision of law now in force in respect to the abandonment of mining claims, they may be abandoned in the following manner: the owner or owners of any mining claim, wishing to abandon the same, may sign and acknowledge in the same manner provided by law for the acknowledgment of deeds, […]
ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 1981, ch. 310, § 7, repealed 69-3-19 to 69-3-21 NMSA 1978, relating to placer mining claims, effective May 20, 1981.
The size of the claim or claims to be located under Sections 69-3-19 to 69-3-21 NMSA 1978 [repealed], and the amount of annual assessment work to be done thereon in order to hold possession of and secure patent to the same shall be the same as provided by Revised Statutes of the United States. History: […]
The owner or owners of lands within this state, the title to which has been vested by letters patent from the United States government, may make and file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such lands are situated, such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the […]
Whenever the owner or lessee of any mining property in the state of New Mexico shall desire to operate the same and to prevent trespassers from entering thereon, such owner or lessees [lessee] may post notices in English and Spanish in at least three public places upon said premises, warning all persons from entering upon […]
After the posting of such notices, it shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon said premises without such permission, and any person violating the provisions of the proceding [preceding] section [69-3-24 NMSA 1978] shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars […]
When any person, firm or corporation shall be lawfully and peaceably in possession of any mining claim in this state and shall have complied with all the requirements of law and regulations in force in the district in which said mining claim is situated, such persons, firm or corporation shall be deemed to be the […]
The owner of any livestock in this state shall not be liable to the owner or his agent or [of] any mining or mineral claim or millsite for damages done by way of trespass upon the same by said livestock other than for actual damage done to buildings, tents, mining supplies or other personal property […]
Hereafter any lease upon any mine, or portion of a mine, not given in writing, for a specified time, shall not be terminated until after notice of the date of such termination, given by the lessor to the lessee, not less than thirty days prior to such date of termination. History: Laws 1891, ch. 73, […]
The lessor and the mine upon which any lease is terminated without such thirty days’ notice, shall be liable to the lessee for all damages resulting from such termination: provided, that nothing in this or the preceding section [69-3-28 NMSA 1978] shall prevent the forfeiture and termination of any such lease without such notice when […]
Any person owning stock in any corporation or company owning or operating mines in this state, shall at any time during the business hours of the day, have the right to enter in and upon any and all mines of such corporation or company, and all underground workings connected therewith for the purpose of examining […]
Every corporation or company or officer or agent of such corporation or company who shall refuse to allow upon demand, any person owning stock in such corporation or company, to enter such mines, as in the preceding section [69-3-30 NMSA 1978] provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and the corporation or company shall forfeit […]
