Nevada Code § 517.010

Person entitled to locate; requirements for location
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Any person who is a citizen of the United
States, or who has legally declared his or her intention to become a citizen of
the United States, who discovers a vein or lode may locate a lode mining claim
thereon by:
1. Defining the boundaries of the claim in
the manner and within the time prescribed by NRS
517.030 ;
2. Erecting or constructing at the point
of the discovery a monument of the size and character of any of the several
monuments prescribed in NRS 517.030 ; and
3. Posting in or upon the monument of
location a notice of the location, which must contain:
(a) The name of the claim.
(b) The name of the locator and the locators
mailing address.
(c) The date of location.
(d) The number of linear feet claimed in the
length along the course of the vein, each way from the point of discovery, with
the width claimed on each side of the center of the vein and the general course
of the lode or vein, as near as may be.

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