Alaska Statutes
Alaska Stat. § 34.35.125 (2026)
Liens on mines and oil wells
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Sec. 34.35.125. Liens on mines and oil wells.
A person who, at the instance of the owner, performs work in, on, or about a mine, or mining claim, oil, gas, or other well, in opening up, developing, sinking, drilling, drifting, stoping, mucking, stripping, shoveling, mining, hoisting, firing, cooking, teaming, or performs any other class or kind of work necessary or convenient to the development, operation, working, or mining of the claim or well; or who performs work tending to or assisting in the development, extraction, separation, or reduction to a commercial value of the minerals; or who performs work on a water right, ditch, flume, pipe line, tramway, tram, road, or trail, used in connection with the opening up, or to facilitate the opening up, operation, or development of the claim or well, or the extraction of the minerals, has a lien on the mine or mining claim, oil, gas, or other claim or well as security for the payment of the work.
A person who, at the instance of the owner, performs work in, on, or about a mine, or mining claim, oil, gas, or other well, in opening up, developing, sinking, drilling, drifting, stoping, mucking, stripping, shoveling, mining, hoisting, firing, cooking, teaming, or performs any other class or kind of work necessary or convenient to the development, operation, working, or mining of the claim or well; or who performs work tending to or assisting in the development, extraction, separation, or reduction to a commercial value of the minerals; or who performs work on a water right, ditch, flume, pipe line, tramway, tram, road, or trail, used in connection with the opening up, or to facilitate the opening up, operation, or development of the claim or well, or the extraction of the minerals, has a lien on the mine or mining claim, oil, gas, or other claim or well as security for the payment of the work.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 2002–2019 · leading case: D.H. Blattner & Sons, Inc. v. N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Ltd., 55 P.3d 37 (Alaska 2002).
D.H. Blattner & Sons, Inc. v. N.M. Rothschild & Sons, Ltd., 55 P.3d 37 (Alaska 2002). “140(a) and any of the kinds of work mentioned in AS 34.35.125. Blattner need not prove that covered work produced the minerals against which the lien is claimed.”
Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. v. Nat'l Rural Utils. Coop. Fin. Corp. (Naknek Elec. Ass'n), 471 B.R. 225 (Bankr. D. Alaska 2012). “7 under AS 34.35.125, et seq. They recorded lien notices in the Kvichak Recording District, where the rig and well are located, on July 21, 2010, and May 7, 2010, respectively.”
Morris v. Rowallan Alaska, Inc., 121 P.3d 159 (Alaska 2005). “Citing AS 34.35.125, AS 34.35.050, and AS 34.35.”
All Am. Oilfield, LLC v. Cook Inlet Energy, LLC, 446 P.3d 767 (Alaska 2019). “In June 2015 All American recorded liens against Cook Inlet, including a mine lien under AS 34.35.125 and a mineral dump lien under AS 34.”
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