![]() I start from the beginning and note how the mining laws have evolved to the present while you folks are focused on how to procure and protect your possessory right to the locatable minerals on the Public Lands. My perspective is different from most/all on this forum. I thought this forum would be a good place to post some of my research over the years. As such, over the years I have also become an amateur historian of the evolution of mining laws and regulations thereunder. Since my job as a retracement surveyor is to follow in the footsteps of the original surveyor I must know and understand what the mineral surveyor was charged with knowing. In addition to abiding by the instructions issued to mineral surveyors by the General Land Office or BLM, the mineral surveyor was required to know and understand the federal mining laws, their amendments, promulgated regulations, state mining laws and local mining customs before beginning the mineral survey. A mineral survey is originally surveyed by a U.S. mineral surveys and when corners have been obliterated or destroyed I will reset the corners. By that, I mean that I retrace the original boundaries of U.S. ![]() I am a land surveyor that specializes in mineral survey retracements and, when necessary dependent resurveys. ![]()
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