RCW 78.08.070
Cut, excavation, tunnel or test hole in lieu of discovery shaft.
Any open cut, excavation or tunnel which cuts or exposes a lode and from which a total of two hundred cubic feet of material has been removed or in lieu thereof a test hole drilled on the lode to a minimum depth of twenty feet from the collar, shall hold the lode the same as if a discovery shaft were sunk thereon, and shall be equivalent thereto.
[ 1955 c 357 § 1; 1899 c 45 § 3; RRS § 8624.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 78 - Mines, Minerals, and Petroleum
Chapter 78.08 - Location of Mining Claims.
78.08.005 - Prior claims, how governed.
78.08.020 - Extent of lode claims.
78.08.030 - Rights of locators.
78.08.040 - Recording instruments affecting claim.
78.08.050 - Location notices—Contents—Recording.
78.08.060 - Staking of claim—Requisites—Right of person diligently engaged in search.
78.08.070 - Cut, excavation, tunnel or test hole in lieu of discovery shaft.
78.08.072 - Holding claim by geological, etc., survey—Report of survey.
78.08.080 - Amended certificate of location.
78.08.081 - Assessment work, affidavit of work performed or affidavit of fees paid.
78.08.082 - Affidavit is prima facie evidence.
78.08.090 - Relocating abandoned claim.
78.08.100 - Location of placer claims.