California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 3.5 - MINES AND MINING

CHAPTER 1 - Manner of Locating Mining Claims, Tunnel Rights, and Millsites

Section 3900. - 3900. Any person, who is a citizen of the United...

Section 3901. - 3901. The locator of any lode mining claim shall define...

Section 3902. - 3902. The location of a placer claim shall be made...

Section 3903. - 3903. The relocation of any lode or placer mining location...

Section 3904. - 3904. As to any placer mining claim which has been...

Section 3905. - 3905. The failure or neglect of the locator or locators...

Section 3906. - 3906. The locator of a tunnel right or location shall...

Section 3907. - 3907. The boundary lines of the tunnel shall be established...

Section 3908. - 3908. If at any time the locator of any mining...

Section 3909. - 3909. Where a locator, or his or her assigns, has...

Section 3910. - 3910. The proprietor of a vein or lode claim or...

Section 3911. - 3911. Within 90 days after the posting of his or...

Section 3912. - 3912. The amount of work done, improvements made, or maintenance...

Section 3913. - 3913. (a) Whenever labor is performed, improvements are made, or...

Section 3914. - 3914. The board of supervisors, may require, by resolution, that...

Section 3915. - 3915. (a) The following are the only monuments which may...

Section 3916. - 3916. Any person who takes down, removes, alters, or destroys...

Section 3917. - 3917. Whenever a coowner or coowners of a mining claim...

Section 3918. - 3918. The original of the notice and affidavit, or a...

Section 3919. - 3919. If the delinquent, within the 90 days required by...

Section 3920. - 3920. If the coowner fails to sign and deliver the...

Section 3921. - 3921. The record of any location of a mining claim,...

Section 3922. - 3922. Copies of the records of all instruments required to...

Section 3923. - 3923. This chapter does not in any manner affect or...

Section 3924. - 3924. Whenever any mining district in this state, organized or...

CHAPTER 2 - Mining Partnerships

Section 3940. - 3940. A mining partnership exists when two or more persons...

Section 3941. - 3941. An express agreement to become partners or to share...

Section 3942. - 3942. A member of a mining partnership shares in the...

Section 3943. - 3943. Each member of a mining partnership has a lien...

Section 3944. - 3944. The mining-ground owned and worked by partners in mining,...

Section 3945. - 3945. One of the partners in a mining partnership may...

Section 3946. - 3946. A purchaser of an interest in the mining-ground of...

Section 3947. - 3947. A purchaser of the interest of a partner in...

Section 3948. - 3948. No member of a mining partnership or other agent...

Section 3949. - 3949. The decision of the members owning a majority of...

Section 3950. - 3950. This chapter does not apply to any operations for...

CHAPTER 3 - Placer Mining Water Pollution

Section 3960. - 3960. This chapter does not apply to any placer mine...

Section 3961. - 3961. Any person, firm, or corporation who engages in the...

Section 3962. - 3962. The verified statement shall be verified by the operator...

Section 3963. - 3963. Within 10 days after an owner or operator changes...

Section 3964. - 3964. No placer mining operator shall mine by the placer...

Section 3965. - 3965. Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 3964, any placer miner...

Section 3966. - 3966. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates this chapter...

Section 3967. - 3967. The operation of any placer mine on ground not...

Section 3968. - 3968. Nothing in this chapter deprives the state, any city,...

CHAPTER 4 - Miscellaneous Provisions

Section 3980. - 3980. Sluice boxes, flumes, hose, pipes, railway tracks, cars, blacksmith...

Section 3981. - 3981. The business of hydraulic mining may be carried on...

Section 3982. - 3982. “Hydraulic mining,” as used in Section 3981, is mining...

Section 3983. - 3983. Any corporation organized in this state for the purpose...

Section 3984. - 3984. Any shareholder of a corporation formed under the laws...

Section 3985. - 3985. All grubstake contracts and prospecting agreements entered into after...