§ 30-1-103 — Prerequisites to filing location certificates

(a) Before the filing of a location certificate in the
office of the county clerk, the discoverer of any lode, vein or
fissure shall designate the location thereof as follows:
(i) Repealed by Laws 1981, ch. 91, § 2.
(ii) By posting at the point of discovery, on the
surface, a plain sign or notice, containing the name of the lode
or claim, the name of the discoverer and locator, and the date
of such discovery;
(iii) By marking the surface boundaries of the claim,
which shall be marked by six (6) substantial monuments of stone
or posts, hewed or marked on the side or sides, which face is
toward the claim, and sunk in the ground, one (1) at each
corner, and one (1) at the center of each side line, and when
thus marking the boundaries of a claim, if any one (1) or more
of such posts or monuments of stone shall fall, by necessity,
upon precipitous ground, when the proper placing of it is
impracticable or dangerous to life or limb, it shall be lawful
to place any such post or monument of stone at the nearest point
properly marked to designate its right place; provided, that no
right to such lode or claim or its possession or enjoyment,
shall be given to any person or persons, unless such person or
persons shall discover in said claim mineral bearing rock in
place.