1. The location of a placer claim shall be made in the following manner:
(a) By posting thereon, upon a monument meeting the requirements of NRS 517.030, erected at any point along the north boundary, a notice of location containing:
(1) The name of the claim;
(2) The name of the locator or locators, together with the post office address of such locator or locators;
(3) The date of location; and
(4) The number of feet or acres claimed; and
(b) By marking the boundaries and the location point in the same manner and by the same means as required by the laws of this state for marking the boundaries of lode claim locations.
2. Where the United States survey has been extended over the land embraced in the location, the claim may be taken by legal subdivisions, and, except the marking of the location point as prescribed in subsection 1, no other markings than those of such survey shall be required.
[13:89:1897; A 1899, 93; C § 220; RL § 2434; NCL § 4132]—(NRS A 1971, 2200)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights
NRS 517.003 - "Division" defined.
NRS 517.010 - Person entitled to locate; requirements for location.
NRS 517.030 - Monumenting of claim; required removal of plastic monuments.
NRS 517.040 - Map: Specifications; filing; distribution; use of filing fee.
NRS 517.050 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.080 - Relocation of abandoned lode claim.
NRS 517.090 - Requirements for location.
NRS 517.100 - Map: Specifications; filing; use of filing fee.
NRS 517.110 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.115 - Evidence of abandonment; acquisition after abandonment.
NRS 517.120 - Location of nonmineral land as mill site.
NRS 517.130 - Requirements for location.
NRS 517.140 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.150 - Requirements for location.
NRS 517.160 - Definition of boundaries; erection of monuments.
NRS 517.170 - Recording of certificate of location; filing of map; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.180 - Location of blind or unknown lode or vein in tunnel.
NRS 517.185 - Fee for each document filed; disposition.
NRS 517.190 - Notice of location: Filing; evidentiary effect.
NRS 517.210 - Survey of location; evidentiary effect of survey and surveyor’s certificate.
NRS 517.280 - Certificates of location need not be sworn to; no required form.
NRS 517.290 - Applicability of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive.
NRS 517.300 - Unlawful acts; penalties.
NRS 517.390 - Affidavit and petition to explore and develop mine or claim.
NRS 517.400 - Determination of amount of taxes, penalties and costs.
NRS 517.410 - Permission to explore and develop claim; limitations.
NRS 517.430 - Renewal of prospecting permits: Limitations and extensions.
NRS 517.450 - Sale of mine or claim not subject to prospecting permit: Affidavit and petition.