2014 Revised Code of Washington
Title 78 - MINES, MINERALS, AND PETROLEUM
78.08 Location of mining claims.
78.08.090 Relocating abandoned claim.
RCW 78.08.090 Relocating abandoned claim.
The relocation of a forfeited or abandoned quartz or lode claim shall only be made by sinking a new discovery shaft, or in lieu thereof performing at least an equal amount of development work within the borders of the claim, and fixing new boundaries in the same manner and to the same extent as is required in making a new location, or the relocator may sink the original discovery shaft ten feet deeper than it was at the date of commencement of such relocation, and shall erect new, or make the old monuments the same as originally required; in either case a new location monument shall be erected.
[1949 c 12 § 2; 1899 c 45 § 8; RRS § 8629.]
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