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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.100 - Map: Specifications; filing; use of filing fee.

Within 90 days after posting the notice of location of a placer claim, the locator shall:
1. Prepare two copies of a map of the claim which must be of a scale of not less than 500 feet to the inch. If the United States survey has been extended over the land embraced in the location, the claim may be taken and described on the map by legal subdivisions as provided in NRS 517.090. If the land has not been surveyed by the United States or if official corners cannot be found through the exercise of due diligence, the map must set forth the position of the monuments in relation to each other and establish numbers of monuments, and the descriptions must be tied to a natural landmark or a readily identifiable artificial landmark as provided in NRS 517.040.
2. File the maps with the county recorder in the county in which the claim is located together with a filing fee of $1 per acre. One-half of the filing fee must be used by the county to establish and maintain, in accordance with the regulations of the Division, a map of the mining claims in the county that must accurately record the location of all mining claims filed after July 1, 1971, which is a public record. The remaining part of the fee may be used for the same purposes as any other general revenue of the county.
[Part 14:89:1897; A 1899, 93; C § 221; RL § 2435; NCL § 4133]—(NRS A 1971, 2200; 1985, 1498; 1993, 1686; 1999, 3629)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.110 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.

1. When the locator files his or her maps pursuant to NRS 517.100, the locator shall present to the county recorder for recording, together with the usual recording fees, duplicate certificates of location which state:
(a) The name of the claim, designating it as a placer claim.
(b) The name of the locator and the locator’s mailing address.
(c) The date of location.
(d) The number of feet or acres claimed.
2. This certificate, or the record thereof, or a certified copy of the record is prima facie evidence of the recitals therein.
3. If the certificate does not state all the facts required by this section to be stated, it is void.
[Part 14:89:1897; A 1899, 93; C § 221; RL § 2435; NCL § 4133]—(NRS A 1971, 2201; 1983, 1611; 1985, 1499)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.115 - Evidence of abandonment; acquisition after abandonment.

1. Whenever the tailings of any mining claim or the waste of any mine has been deposited upon the unappropriated public domain and remains unworked for a period of 10 successive years, it is prima facie evidence of abandonment of title or the right of possession thereto.
2. After abandonment, the right of possession or title to the mining tailings or waste may be acquired by locating the site on which the tailings or waste is deposited by complying with the provisions of NRS 517.090, 517.100 and 517.110.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 569; A 1985, 1499)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.120 - Location of nonmineral land as mill site.

The proprietor of a mine or mining claim or the owner of a mill or reduction works, may locate 5 acres of nonmineral land as a mill site.
[15:89:1897; C § 222; RL § 2436; NCL § 4134]—(NRS A 1985, 1499)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.130 - Requirements for location.

The locator of a mill site shall locate his or her claim by:
1. Posting a notice of location thereon, which must contain:
(a) The name of the locator and the locator’s mailing address;
(b) The name of the mine or mining claim of which the locator is the proprietor, or the name of the mill or reduction works of which the locator is the owner;
(c) The date of the location; and
(d) The number of feet or acres claimed; and
2. Marking the boundaries of his or her claim in the same manner as provided in this chapter for the marking of the boundaries of a placer claim, so far as applicable thereto.
[16:89:1897; C § 223; RL § 2437; NCL § 4135]—(NRS A 1971, 2201; 1985, 1499)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.140 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.

1. Within 90 days after the date of his or her location, the locator of a claim or location of a mill site shall record his or her location with the county recorder of the county in which the location is situated, by duplicate certificates of location.
2. When the locator records his or her certificates of location the locator shall file two copies of a map not to exceed 3 feet by 4 feet and pay the filing fees which comply with the requirements set forth in NRS 517.040 and 517.050.
3. Any record of a location of a mill site which does not contain the name of the locator, the name of the mine or mining claim of which the locator is the proprietor, or the name of the mill or reduction works of which the locator is the owner, the number of feet or acres claimed, and a description which identifies the claim with reasonable certainty is void.
[17:89:1897; C § 224; RL § 2438; NCL § 4136] + [18:89:1897; C § 225; RL § 2439; NCL § 4137]—(NRS A 1971, 2201; 1983, 1611; 1985, 1500)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.150 - Requirements for location.

The locator of a tunnel right or location shall locate his or her tunnel right or location by posting a notice of location at the face or point of commencement of the tunnel, which notice must contain:
1. The name of the locator and the locator’s mailing address.
2. The date of the location.
3. The proposed course or direction of the tunnel.
4. The height and width thereof.
5. The position and character of the boundary monuments.
6. A description of the tunnel by reference to a natural landmark or a readily identifiable artificial landmark which identifies the claim or tunnel right.
[19:89:1897; C § 226; RL § 2440; NCL § 4138]—(NRS A 1971, 2202; 1985, 1500)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.160 - Definition of boundaries; erection of monuments.

1. Within 60 days after the posting of the notice of location, the locator of a tunnel right or location shall define the boundaries of the tunnel by monuments placed at intervals of not more than 300 feet from the face or point of commencement of the tunnel to the terminus of 3,000 feet therefrom.
2. The monuments must be of the same size and character as those provided for lode or placer claims in this chapter.
[20:89:1897; C § 227; RL § 2441; NCL § 4139]—(NRS A 1985, 1500)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.170 - Recording of certificate of location; filing of map; effect of insufficiency.

1. Within 90 days from the date of the location, the locator of a tunnel right or location shall record his or her location with the county recorder of the county in which the location is situated.
2. When the locator records his or her certificate of location the locator shall file two copies of a map that complies with the requirements set forth in NRS 517.040.
3. Any record of a tunnel right or location which does not contain all the requirements named in this section is void.
[21:89:1897; C § 228; RL § 2442; NCL § 4140]—(NRS A 1971, 2202; 1985, 1500)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.180 - Location of blind or unknown lode or vein in tunnel.

All blind lodes, or veins or lodes not previously known to exist, discovered in a tunnel run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, and within 3,000 feet from the face of such tunnel, shall be located upon the surface and held in like manner to other lode claims under the provisions of this chapter.
[22:89:1897; C § 229; RL § 2443; NCL § 4141]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.185 - Fee for each document filed; disposition.

1. In addition to any recording fee, each filing pursuant to NRS 517.050, 517.080, 517.110, 517.140, 517.170, 517.200 and 517.230 must be submitted with a filing fee in an amount established pursuant to subsection 2. The county recorder shall collect the filing fee and, on or before the fifth working day of each month, deposit with the county treasurer all such fees collected during the preceding month. The county treasurer shall quarterly pay the money collected to the Division. The Division shall deposit with the State Treasurer, for credit to the Account for the Division of Minerals created pursuant to NRS 513.103, all money received pursuant to this section.
2. The Commission on Mineral Resources shall, by regulation, establish the filing fee required pursuant to subsection 1 in an amount not to exceed $6 per claim.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1494; A 1989, 1595; 1991, 1780; 1993, 298, 1686; 1995, 579; 1999, 891, 3629; 2001, 66)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.190 - Notice of location: Filing; evidentiary effect.

A locator of a mining claim or a claim for a mill site or tunnel right may file with the county recorder a notice of location which is prima facie evidence in all courts of justice of the first location of that claim.
[Part 3:89:1897; A 1907, 418; 1941, 92; 1931 NCL § 4122]—(NRS A 1985, 1501)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.195 - Separate notices and certificates of location; effect of combining locations in notice or certificate.

1. A locator shall:
(a) Post a separate notice of location; and
(b) Record a separate certificate of location,
for each location of a lode or placer claim or of a claim for a mill site or tunnel right.
2. Where a notice or certificate of location includes more than one location, it is void as to all locations except the first described in the notice or certificate. If the descriptions are combined so that it cannot be determined from the notice or certificate which location is described first, the notice or certificate is void as to all of the locations.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1493)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.200 - Validation of defective certificate of location or change of boundaries: Filing of amended certificate of location; effect of amendment; correction of common error.

1. If at any time the locator of any mining claim located before, on or after March 16, 1897, or the locator’s assigns, apprehends that the locator’s original certificate of location was defective or erroneous, or that the requirements of the law had not been complied with before filing, or if he or she is desirous of changing his or her surface boundaries or of taking in any part of an overlapping claim which has been abandoned, or in case the original certificate of location was made before March 16, 1897, and he or she is desirous of securing the benefits of this chapter, the locator, or the locator’s assigns, may file an amended certificate of location, subject to the provisions of this chapter, if the amendment does not interfere with the existing rights of others at the time of the amendment.
2. The amendment or the record thereof does not preclude the claimant from proving any title the claimant held under previous locations.
3. Where a common error occurs in more than one certificate of location, the locator may record one document which describes the error, makes reference to the claims by name and the date, book and page of recording and states the desired amendment.
[6:89:1897; C § 213; RL § 2427; NCL § 4125]—(NRS A 1969, 498; 1985, 1501)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.210 - Survey of location; evidentiary effect of survey and surveyor’s certificate.

Where a locator, or a locator’s assigns, has the boundaries and corners of his or her claim established by a United States Mineral Surveyor, or a licensed surveyor of this state, and his or her claim connected with a corner of the public or minor surveys of an established initial point, and incorporates into the record of the claim the field notes of the survey, and attaches to and files with the certificate of location a certificate of the surveyor setting forth:
1. That the survey was actually made by the surveyor, giving the date thereof;
2. The name of the claim surveyed and the location thereof; and
3. That the description incorporated in the declaratory statement is sufficient to identify,
the survey and certificate become a part of the record, and the record is prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained.
[8:89:1897; C § 215; RL § 2429; NCL § 4127]—(NRS A 1985, 1502)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.213 - Inclusion of patented mines and mining claims on county map; conformity of discrepancy between county map and record of survey showing location of mine or claim; duty of county recorder to provide map to county assessor.

1. The county recorder shall include all patented mines and mining claims in the county on the county map of mining claims in a manner which clearly distinguishes the patented mines and mining claims from the unpatented claims.
2. When a record of survey filed with the county by a registered surveyor shows the location of a patented mine or mining claim, the county recorder shall conform the county map to the record of survey if there is any discrepancy between the two maps concerning the location of the mine or claim.
3. A county recorder who records a map pursuant to this section shall, within 7 working days after the county recorder records the map, provide to the county assessor at no charge:
(a) A duplicate copy of the map and any supporting documents; or
(b) Access to the digital map and any digital supporting documents. The map and supporting documents must be in a form that is acceptable to the county recorder and the county assessor.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1494; A 1989, 50; 2001, 1566; 2003, 2792)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.215 - Comparison of record of survey to county map of mining claims; notice of proposal to change county map; change to county map if no hearing requested; hearing upon request.

1. When a record of survey filed with the county recorder by a professional land surveyor shows the location of a mining claim, the county recorder shall compare that record of survey to the county map of mining claims and ascertain whether the location of the claim is accurate according to the record of survey.
2. If the county map inaccurately shows the location of the claim, the county recorder shall propose a change to the county map and mail a notice to all persons whose claims would be affected by the proposed change.
3. The notice must include:
(a) A description of the proposed change; and
(b) A statement advising the owner of the claim that the proposed change will be made unless the owner makes a written request to the county recorder for a hearing within 30 days.
4. If a request for a hearing is not received by the county recorder within 30 days after he or she mailed the notice, the county recorder shall make the proposed change to the county map.
5. Upon receipt of a request for a hearing the county recorder shall request the board of county commissioners to hold a hearing on the proposed change.
6. Upon receipt of such a request the board of county commissioners shall, after notifying the county recorder and the owner of the mining claim at least 30 days in advance, hold a hearing and determine whether the proposed change is to be made.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1494; A 1989, 797)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.230 - Affidavit of work performed or improvements made; affidavit of owner or claimant; evidentiary effect of affidavits.

1. On or before November 1 of the year for which labor is performed or improvements are made as required by law for a mining claim annually, the person in whose behalf the labor was performed or improvements made, or someone in the person’s behalf, shall make and have recorded by the county recorder, in books kept for that purpose in the county in which the mining claim is situated, an affidavit setting forth:
(a) The amount of money expended, or value of labor or improvements made, or both.
(b) The character of expenditures or labor or improvements.
(c) A description of the claim or part of the claim affected by the expenditures or labor or improvements.
(d) The year for which the expenditures or labor or improvements were made and the dates on which they were made.
(e) The name of the owner or claimant of the claim at whose expense the improvements or labor was made or performed.
(f) The names of the persons, corporations, contractors or subcontractors who performed the work or made the improvements.
2. An affidavit made and recorded pursuant to subsection 1 or a copy thereof, certified by the county recorder, is prima facie evidence of the performance of the labor or the making of the improvements, or both.
3. On or before November 1 of each year that the performance of labor or the making of improvements is not required by law for a mining claim, the owner or claimant of the mining claim who intends to hold the claim, or someone in the owner or claimant’s behalf, shall make and have recorded by the county recorder, in books kept for that purpose in the county in which the mining claim is situated, an affidavit setting forth:
(a) The name and address of the owner or claimant of the mining claim.
(b) The name of the mining claim, and the serial number, if any, assigned to the claim by the United States Bureau of Land Management.
(c) The date that the affidavit was made.
(d) A statement that the owner or claimant of the mining claim intends to hold the claim.
4. An affidavit made and recorded pursuant to subsection 3 or a copy thereof, certified by the county recorder, is prima facie evidence that the owner or claimant of the mining claim intended to hold the claim from 12 p.m. on September 1 of the year before the affidavit was made and recorded, until 11:59 a.m. on September 1 of the year that the affidavit was made and recorded.
[10:89:1897; C § 217; RL § 2431; NCL § 4129]—(NRS A 1960, 319; 1961, 422; 1969, 1003; 1971, 2202; 1985, 1502; 1993, 299)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.280 - Certificates of location need not be sworn to; no required form.

Certificates of location need not be sworn to, and are not required to be in any specified form nor to state facts in any specific order, but must truly state the required facts.
[24:89:1897; added 1899, 93; C § 231; RL § 2445; NCL § 4143]—(NRS A 1961, 422)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.290 - Applicability of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive.

The provisions of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive, shall be construed as equally applicable to all classes of locations, except where the requirement as to any one class is manifestly inapplicable to any other class or classes.
[23:89:1897; C § 230; RL § 2444; NCL § 4142]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.300 - Unlawful acts; penalties.

1. A person who willfully antedates or puts any false date or date other than the one on which the location is made upon any notice of location of any mining claim in this state is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
2. A person who willfully and knowingly makes a false material statement on the certificate of location or on any map required by this chapter is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
[1911 C&P § 410; RL § 6675; NCL § 10362]—(NRS A 1971, 2203; 1979, 1484; 1985, 1502; 1995, 1303)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.350 - Written instruments recorded in office of county recorder before February 20, 1873, deemed to impart notice to subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers.

All instruments of writing relating to mining claims copied into books of mining records or other records in the office of the county recorders of the several counties prior to February 20, 1873, shall, after February 20, 1873, be deemed to impart to subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers and all other persons whomsoever notice of the contents thereof. Nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed to affect any rights acquired or vested prior to February 20, 1873.
[1:20:1873; B § 320; BH § 2664; C § 2736; RL § 1635; NCL § 2136] + [2:20:1873; B § 321; BH § 2665; C § 2737; RL § 1636; NCL § 2137]—(NRS A 1971, 810)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.360 - Records of mining claims, mill sites or tunnel rights made by mining district recorder or county recorder before March 16, 1897, declared valid; evidentiary effect of record.

1. All records of lode or placer mining claims, mill sites or tunnel rights made by any mining district recorder or any county recorder prior to March 16, 1897, are hereby declared to be valid and to have the same force and effect as records made in pursuance of the provisions of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive.
2. Any such record, or a copy thereof duly verified by a mining district recorder or duly certified by a county recorder, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.
[Part 3:89:1897; A 1907, 418; 1941, 92; 1931 NCL § 4122]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.370 - Conveyances of mining claims: Formalities; construction and proof of conveyances before December 12, 1862.

1. After December 12, 1862, conveyances of mining claims shall require the same formalities and shall be subject to the same rules of construction as the transfers and conveyances of other real property.
2. All conveyances of mining claims made prior to December 12, 1862, by bills of sale or other instruments in writing, with or without seals, recorded or unrecorded, shall be construed in accordance with the lawful local rules, regulations and customs of the miners in the several mining districts of the Territory of Nevada; and if, prior to December 12, 1862, regarded as valid and binding in such mining districts, shall have the same force and effect between the parties thereto, as prima facie evidence of sale, as if such conveyances had been made by deed under seal.
3. The location and transfers of mining claims made prior to December 12, 1862, shall be established and proved in contestation before courts by the local rules, regulations and customs of the miners in the several mining districts of the Territory of Nevada in which such location and transfers were made.
[1:14:1862; B § 307; BH § 2650; C § 2720; RL § 1100; NCL § 1561] + [2:14:1862; B § 308; BH § 2651; C § 2721; RL § 1101; NCL § 1562] + [3:14:1862; B § 308; BH § 2652; C § 2722; RL § 1102; NCL § 1563]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.380 - Validity of previous conveyances of mining claims or locations by minors more than 18 years of age.

In all cases in this state since July 1, 1867, where minors over the age of 18 years have sold interests acquired by them in mining claims or locations within this state, by virtue of their having located such claims, or having been located therein by others, and have executed deeds purporting to convey such interests, such deeds, if otherwise sufficient in law, shall be held valid and sufficient to convey such interest fully and completely, notwithstanding the minority of the grantor, and without any power or right of subsequent revocation. This section does not apply to cases where any fraud was practiced upon such minor, or any undue or improper advantage was taken by the purchaser or any other person to induce such minor to execute such deed.
[1:49:1869; B § 317; BH § 2653; C § 2723; RL § 1103; NCL § 1564] + [2:49:1869; B § 318; BH § 2654; C § 2724; RL § 1104; NCL § 1565]—(NRS A 1973, 1579)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.390 - Affidavit and petition to explore and develop mine or claim.

1. Whenever a patented mine or mining claim has become the property of a county through operation of the revenue laws of this state, any citizen of the United States may file with the board of county commissioners of such county an affidavit and petition to explore and develop the mine or claim, provided the mine or claim has been the property of the county for less than 1 year, at the time of such filing.
2. The affidavit and petition shall state:
(a) That the petitioner is a citizen of the United States.
(b) That there is belonging to the county, as shown by the official records thereof, a patented mine or mining claim, sufficiently identifying it, which has become the property of the county through operation of the revenue laws of this state.
(c) The amount of the tax, penalties and costs, if any, for which the mine or claim became the property of the county.
(d) That it is the petitioner’s bona fide intention to explore and develop the mine or claim.
[Part 1:44:1933; A 1935, 25; 1945, 351; 1943 NCL § 4309]—(NRS A 1971, 76; 1989, 50)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.400 - Determination of amount of taxes, penalties and costs.

After March 7, 1947, the amount or sum for which a patented mine or mining claim became the property of the county is hereby defined to mean 1 year’s taxes, plus penalties and costs.
[Part 1(a):44:1933; added 1947, 46; 1943 NCL § 4309.01]—(NRS A 1989, 50)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.410 - Permission to explore and develop claim; limitations.

1. Upon receipt of an affidavit and petition as required by NRS 517.390, the board of county commissioners, by an order appearing in its minutes, may give such petitioner permission to enter upon any such claim or claims and explore the same for valuable minerals for a period of 6 months without any charge therefor.
2. No ore or valuable mineral, in excess of 500 pounds, shall be removed from any mining claim or claims until title thereto shall have been acquired by the petitioner as provided in NRS 517.420.
[Part 1:44:1933; A 1935, 25; 1945, 351; 1943 NCL § 4309]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.420 - Execution of deed to convey title to petitioner; consideration and limitations; disposition of proceeds of sale.

1. At the expiration of 6 months, or sooner if the petitioner so desires, the county treasurer shall make and execute a deed conveying the title of the county to such mine or claim to the petitioner for the sum for which the property became the property of the county.
2. A deed shall not be executed for any less number of mines or claims than the number named in the 6 months’ prospecting permit referred to in NRS 517.410.
3. All money received from the sale of such patented mines or mining claims must be credited to the county’s general fund.
[Part 1:44:1933; A 1935, 25; 1945, 351; 1943 NCL § 4309]—(NRS A 1965, 124; 1971, 76; 1989, 51)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.430 - Renewal of prospecting permits: Limitations and extensions.

1. No person or agent of any person shall be granted a new prospecting permit upon the same claims, or any of them, under the provisions of NRS 517.390 to 517.430, inclusive:
(a) If such claims, or any of them, at the time of any subsequent application, have been the property of the county for a year or more.
(b) Until 30 days shall have elapsed between the date of the termination of the former prospecting permit and the date of application for a subsequent permit.
2. If at the time of the expiration of a prospecting period actual development work, by drilling or otherwise, is being carried on, then the board of county commissioners shall, upon application, grant an additional 6 months’ prospecting period to the same applicant or applicants.
[Part 1:44:1933; A 1935, 25; 1945, 351; 1943 NCL § 4309]—(NRS A 1971, 76)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.450 - Sale of mine or claim not subject to prospecting permit: Affidavit and petition.

1. Whenever a patented mine or mining claim has been, for a year or more, the property of a county through operation of the revenue laws of this state and no prospecting permit granted under the provisions of NRS 517.410 or 517.430 is in force with respect to the mine or claim, any citizen of the United States may file with the board of county commissioners of the county an affidavit and petition to have the mine or claim advertised for sale to the highest bidder.
2. The affidavit and petition must state:
(a) That the petitioner is a citizen of the United States.
(b) That for the past year or more there has belonged to the county, as shown by the official records thereof, a patented mine or mining claim, sufficiently identifying it, which has become the property of the county through operation of the revenue laws of this state.
(c) That no prospecting permit granted under the provisions of NRS 517.410 or 517.430 is in force with respect to the mine or claim.
(d) The amount of the tax, penalties and costs, if any, for which the mine or claim became the property of the county.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 77; A 1989, 51)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights › NRS 517.460 - Sale of mine or claim not subject to prospecting permit: Order for and notice of sale; conveyance to purchaser; disposition of proceeds.

1. Upon receipt of an affidavit and petition as required by NRS 517.450, the board of county commissioners, by an order appearing in its minutes, shall direct the county treasurer to sell the patented mine or mining claim described in the affidavit and petition, after giving notice of the sale, for a total amount not less than the amount of the taxes, costs, penalties and interest legally chargeable against the mine or claim so stated in the order.
2. Notice of the sale must be posted in at least three public places, including one at the courthouse and one on each claim, for a period of not less than 20 days before the day of sale or, in lieu of such posting, by publication of such notice for a like period in some newspaper published within the county, if the board of county commissioners by its order so directs.
3. Upon compliance with the order the county treasurer shall make, execute and deliver to any purchaser, upon payment to the county treasurer of a consideration not less than that specified in the order, a deed conveying the title of the county to the mine or claim.
4. All moneys received from the sale of such patented mines or mining claims must be credited to the county’s general fund.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 77; A 1989, 51)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.010 - Possessors of mining claims deemed lawful owners of ores therefrom.

Any person, copartnership, association or corporation in the actual and peaceable possession of any mining claim, under claim or color of title, and engaged in the mining, shipment and treatment, or sale of ores therefrom, shall, as to all persons purchasing such ore or ores in good faith and without notice as provided in NRS 519.030 of the title or claim of title or ownership of any other person, copartnership, association or corporation thereto, be deemed to be the lawful owner or owners of such ore or ores.
[1:167:1907; RL § 2487; NCL § 4185]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.020 - Purchasers in good faith deemed owners of ores.

Any person who, or copartnership, association or corporation which, shall in good faith and in the usual course of business and without notice, as provided in NRS 519.030, purchase and obtain delivery of any ore or ores from any person, copartnership, association or corporation in possession of the mines, mining claim or claims from which such ore or ores shall have been mined and extracted, shall be deemed the owner or owners of such ores except as provided in NRS 519.010 to 519.050, inclusive. The person, copartnership, association or corporation deemed to be the owner or owners of the ore or ores shall not be liable to, or subject to, any action at law or in equity for the recovery of the same or the value thereof by any person, copartnership, association or corporation who or which may thereafter be adjudged to be the owner or owners of such mine, mines, mining claim or claims.
[2:167:1907; RL § 2488; NCL § 4186]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.030 - Notice to purchasers of their liability; institution of action to enforce title.

1. If any person, copartnership, association or corporation shall be or shall claim to be the owner or owners, or entitled to the possession or enjoyment, of any mine, mines, mining claim, claims or premises, then in the possession of some other person, copartnership, association or corporation claiming to be the owner or owners or entitled to the possession thereof, and mining, shipping and treating or selling the ore therefrom, the person, copartnership, association or corporation may, if the person, copartnership, association or corporation shall intend or desire to hold purchasers of or those intending to purchase such ore or ores responsible for the value thereof, serve or cause to be served upon such purchaser or purchasers, or intending purchaser or purchasers, a notice in writing, which shall contain:
(a) The name of the mine, mines, mining claim, claims or premises.
(b) The name of the person, copartnership, association or corporation claiming or asserting ownership or right to the possession or enjoyment thereof.
(c) The name or names of the person, copartnership, association or corporation in possession of and mining, shipping and selling ore therefrom.
(d) A warning to such purchaser or purchasers, or intending purchaser or purchasers, that he, she, they or it will be held liable and responsible for all ore or ores by him, her, them or it purchased and delivered or to be purchased and delivered from such mine, mines, mining claim, claims or premises by such person, copartnership, association or corporation, or his, her, their or its heirs, assigns or agents subsequent to the service of such notice.
2. Within 30 days from and after the service of such notice, the person, copartnership, association or corporation serving or causing to be served the same shall:
(a) Institute an action to enforce his, her, their or its title in some court of competent jurisdiction against the person, copartnership, association or corporation in possession of and mining and shipping ore from such mine, mines, mining claim, claims or premises, and to enjoin him, her, them or it from the mining or shipment and sale of ores taken therefrom pending such action; and
(b) At once notify such purchaser or purchasers or intending purchaser or purchasers of such ore or ores of the pendency of such action.
3. If the notice required by this section shall be served after an action shall have been instituted, it shall not be necessary to commence another under the provisions hereof.
[3:167:1907; RL § 2489; NCL § 4187]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.040 - Liability of claimant for failure to institute action after service of notice.

If any person, copartnership, association or corporation claiming title to or right of possession of such mine, mines, mining claim, claims or premises, not having before then brought action, shall serve a notice upon any purchaser or purchasers or intending purchaser or purchasers of ore or ores, as provided in NRS 519.030, and shall fail or neglect to institute an action as required in NRS 519.030, such notice shall be deemed to have been waived, and the person or persons serving such notice shall be liable to the persons injured thereby in double damages including costs and reasonable attorney fees, and such purchaser or purchasers or intending purchaser or purchasers shall not be bound by anything therein contained.
[4:167:1907; RL § 2490; NCL § 4188]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.050 - Liability of purchaser after notice and institution of action.

Any purchaser of ore or ores who or which shall have received the notice provided for in NRS 519.030, and followed or preceded by the commencement of an action as therein set forth, who shall purchase or continue to purchase and receive ores taken from the mine, mines, mining claim, claims or premises named therein, shall be liable and responsible for the value thereof to the person, copartnership, association or corporation who or which shall be ultimately adjudged or decreed to be the owner or entitled to the possession thereof.
[5:167:1907; RL § 2491; NCL § 4189]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.060 - Payment for ores within 30 days after delivery, sale or settlement; penalty.

1. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of purchasing, sampling, reducing or refining of ores, the predominating value of which is in gold or silver, for others, shall make settlement with and pay to the seller of such ores the value thereof, after lawful deductions, within 30 days after the delivery and sampling of such ores.
2. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of purchasing, sampling, or in the treatment or reduction or smelting, of ores or metal, for others, shall make settlement with and pay to the seller of such metals the value thereof, after agreed and lawful deductions, within 30 days after the sale of the products of such metal by the smelter, mill, reduction works, refinery or sampler reducing or refining the same.
3. Every person, firm or corporation or lessor shipping ores, bullion or metals to any smelter, mill, sampler or reduction works or refinery for another, shall make settlement with and pay to the person or persons entitled thereto the value of such ores, bullion or metals, within 30 days after the settlement therefor shall have been made by the smelter, mill, reduction works, refinery or sampler purchasing or reducing or refining the same.
4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section commits an unlawful conversion, and is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[1:179:1925; NCL § 4190] + [2:179:1925; NCL § 4191] + [3:179:1925; NCL § 4192] + [4:179:1925; NCL § 4193]—(NRS A 1967, 606)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.070 - Unlawful to change value of ore, substitute ore or issue false bill of sale or certificate of purchase; penalty.

Any person, corporation or association, or the agent of any person, corporation or association, engaged in the milling, smelting, sampling, concentrating, reducing, shipping or purchasing of ores in this state, who shall in any manner knowingly alter or change the true value of any ores delivered to the person, corporation, association or agent so as to deprive the seller of the correct value of the same, or who shall substitute other ores for those delivered to the person, corporation, association or agent, or who shall issue any bill of sale, or certificate of purchase, that does not exactly and truthfully state the actual weight, assay value, and total amount paid for any lot or lots of ore purchased, or who, by any secret understanding or agreement with another shall issue a bill of sale or certificate of purchase that does not correctly and truthfully set forth the weight, assay value and total amount paid for any lot or lots of ore purchased by the person, corporation, association or agent, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 445; RL § 6710; NCL § 10398]—(NRS A 1967, 606)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.090 - Examination of books of assayer and purchaser upon affidavit of theft or other unlawful taking.

1. Whenever an affidavit shall be made by any person before any justice of the peace or district judge that any ore, free gold, gold dust, gold amalgam, gold nuggets, gold specimens, gold bullion, free silver, silver nuggets, silver bullion, lead, lead bullion, copper or copper bullion has been stolen or unlawfully taken from the person, or from any copartnership, association or corporation in which the person is interested or in which the person is an officer or agent, stating as near as may be the character, amount and value thereof, such person by himself, herself, or his or her attorneys, or both, upon presentation of such affidavit, or a copy thereof duly certified as such by the officer before whom the same is verified, shall have access to such book or books of any and every assayer, person, partnership, association or corporation required to keep the same by the provisions of NRS 519.080, and may freely and without hindrance or interference, read and examine all entries which may have been made therein during a period of 60 days next preceding the date of such affidavit.
2. The examination provided for in this section may be made by the person making such affidavit, or the partnership, association or corporation in whose behalf the same is made, only if such person or partnership, association or corporation shall at the time thereof have a present ownership or interest in the assay office, mine, claim, premises, mill, smelter, concentrator, refinery or establishment from which such ores, free gold, gold dust, gold amalgam, gold specimens, gold bullion, silver, silver nuggets, silver bullion, lead, lead bullion, copper or copper bullion has been stolen or unlawfully taken or alleged to have been stolen or unlawfully taken.
[2:193:1907; RL § 2484; NCL § 4182]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.100 - Penalty for failing to keep books, making false entries or refusing to allow inspections.

Every assayer, person, copartnership, association or corporation described in NRS 519.080 who or which shall fail, refuse or neglect to keep the book or books, or to make the entries therein as required in NRS 519.080, or who or which shall make or cause to be made any false or fictitious entry therein, or who or which shall refuse the right of inspection thereof to any person entitled thereto as provided in NRS 519.090, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000.
[3:193:1907; RL § 2485; NCL § 4183]—(NRS A 1967, 606)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.110 - Failure, refusal or neglect of assayer or purchaser not to operate as excuse or defense.

If any assayer, person, partnership, association or corporation shall fail, refuse or neglect to make the inquiries or secure the information necessary to the making of the proper entries in the book as provided in NRS 519.080, or shall so negligently and imperfectly make such entry or entries that the nature, character or value of the ore or other property therein mentioned, or the assayer, partnership, person, association or corporation delivering the same or receiving the proceeds thereof cannot be ascertained, identified or determined, or shall fail, neglect or refuse to keep such book or books, or shall willfully lose or mislay or willfully or knowingly permit to be lost or mislaid the book or books, so that the same cannot be produced for inspection as provided in NRS 519.090, such failure, refusal or neglect shall not excuse, protect or operate as a defense to any such assayer, partnership, association or corporation as defendant or defendants in any action or prosecution brought or instituted under the provisions of NRS 519.080 to 519.110, inclusive.
[4:193:1907; RL § 2486; NCL § 4184]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.120 - Assayers to identify bullion or amalgam; penalty for refusal or neglect to comply.

1. Every person or firm engaged in the business of assaying within this state shall be required to place a written description, pasted on or stamped upon every bar of bullion or amalgam melted, retorted, assayed or refined by such person or firm, containing the name of the person or company by whom such bullion or amalgam was deposited with or sold to such person or firm.
2. Every person or firm engaged in the business of assaying within this state who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 498; RL § 6763; NCL § 10445] + [1911 C&P § 499; RL § 6764; NCL § 10446]—(NRS A 1967, 607)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519 - Purchase, Assaying and Recovery of Ores › NRS 519.130 - Statement required in certain documents containing results of assay; penalties; enforcement.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, every person or firm engaged in the business of assaying within this state shall, in each report or other document containing the results of an assay conducted by the person or firm which is created or produced for a commercial purpose, provide in the report or document a statement, prominently displayed and in bold type, which reads substantially as follows:
The results of this assay were based solely upon the content of the sample submitted. Any decision to invest should be made only after the potential investment value of the claim or deposit has been determined based on the results of assays of multiple samples of geologic materials collected by the prospective investor or by a qualified person selected by the prospective investor and based on an evaluation of all engineering data which is available concerning any proposed project.
2. Any person or firm who knowingly violates the provisions of subsection 1 is:
(a) For the first violation, guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) For a second or subsequent violation, guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
3. The right to enforce the provisions of this section vests exclusively in the Attorney General.
4. The provisions of this section do not apply to a person who is required to file an annual statement pursuant to the provisions of NRS 362.110.
5. As used in this section, "business of assaying" means a business that determines the elemental composition of samples of geologic materials for a fee or other valuable consideration.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 895; A 2008, 25th Special Session, 22)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 519A - Reclamation of Land Subject to Mining Operations or Exploration Projects › NRS 519A.010 - Legislative findings; cooperation with state and federal agencies in administration and enforcement of chapter.

1. The Legislature hereby finds that:
(a) The extraction of minerals by mining is a basic and essential activity making an important contribution to the economy of the State of Nevada;
(b) Proper reclamation of mined land, areas of exploration and former areas of mining or exploration is necessary to prevent undesirable land and surface water conditions detrimental to the ecology and to the general health, welfare, safety and property rights of the residents of this state; and
(c) The success of reclamation efforts in this state is dependent upon cooperation among state and federal agencies.
2. The Legislature hereby directs that all agencies and political subdivisions of the State of Nevada which are involved in or whose work is related to the administration or enforcement of the provisions of this chapter shall cooperate fully with all other state and federal agencies in any related matter.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1281)