Sec. 40.05.010. Purpose.

The purpose of this chapter is to enable the Department of Natural Resources to accumulate and disseminate information on the status of mining ground in the performance of its prescribed duties.

Sec. 40.05.020. Reports of instruments affecting mining properties.

The recorder of each recording district shall prepare and forward to the Department of Natural Resources, by the 10th day of each month, a copy of each new mining claim, mining leasehold, prospecting site location certificate, or other document indexed by the recorder as a mining document recorded during the preceding month.