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Inspect maps of the area at the local Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office. Correlate your claim with any and all existing claims for the area. The BLM has previous boundaries on record and will assist in properly marking the boundaries of a gold claim.
Post the boundaries on the claim as either a gold load claim or a gold placer claim. Placer gold claims are broken down into quadrants while a lode claim will have boundaries that mark the running vein of the gold lode still attached within rock. Place mine boundaries surround the active mining process. Each type of claim must have a claim post or posts which serve as notice to the public of the claim's location.
Record the site with the local records office and the BLM. Include the date, the name(s) of the locators, the name of the site, the type of claim that it is, the size of the claim in acres and a description of the claim describing important features that include gold placements and waterways passing through the property.
File a copy of the official record with the BLM as instructed by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA). Amendments in claim boundaries and change of ownership are just some of the changes that can affect a gold claim since the change of law in 1976.
Pay fees to the BLM that include but are not limited to a notice of new location, recording fees, record maintenance, intent to locate claims on stock raising homestead act, amendments of ownership, affidavit of annual assessment work, annual maintenance, petition for deferment of assessment work, mineral patent application (first claim and then subsequent), additional claim/site in one patent application.