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Researching and Staking Mining Claims—Part II
January 2007 by Chris Ralph
With the differences between placer and lode claims, some prospectors will wonder if it is legal to file a new claim over an old one where the old claim is a lode and they are interested in the placer deposits on that claim.
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Company Notes
September 1999
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