mining claim

collocation in English

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mining
noun[U]
uk
/ˈmaɪ.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmaɪ.nɪŋ/
the industry or activity of removing substances such as coal or metal from the ground ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk
/kleɪm/us
/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition ofminingandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The two quietly registered aminingclaim, but the secret got out.
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Aminingclaimalways starts out as an unpatented claim.
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Aminingclaimallows some security of tenure for the owner, providing an incentive to invest time and money developing the deposit.
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Firstly, there was no means to make aminingclaimlegal.
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Another version is a two-paged story of a hard-to-find drainage and an 1863miningclaim.
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It was aminingclaimrather than a homestead.
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His attempts to mine the ore body were not successful, however, and he abandoned hisminingclaimin 1903.
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The area of the mine is private property, a patentedminingclaim.
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They buy aminingclaimand proceed to dig.
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In the meantime, aminingclaimdisrupted access to the traditional picnic grounds.
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His only significant possessions were a hut (worth around 20) on aminingclaimand a mere 5 shillings found with him in his room.
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He had aminingclaimto the area and claimed that this entitled him to charge for entrance and egress.
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Three additional monuments, one at each corner of theminingclaim, must be set, numbered in a clockwise direction.
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Small amounts of bat guano were mined from the entrance passages for a year under aminingclaimfiled in 1914.
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A patentedminingclaimis one for which the federal government has passed its title to the claimant, making it private land.
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Miningclaimlaws vary from state to state, but claims staked over federal minerals follow federal mining law.
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Another type ofminingclaimis a lode claim.
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To obtain a patent, the owner of aminingclaimmust prove to the federal government that the claim contains locateable minerals that can be extracted at a profit.
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