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)
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.