43 C.F.R. § 3836.15
What happens if I fail to perform required assessment work?
If you are required to perform assessment work and—
(a) You fail to perform the assessment work as required in this part, your claim is open to relocation by a rival claimant as if no location had ever been made; or
(b) You fail substantially to perform the assessment work as required in this part and the land is withdrawn from mineral entry or the mineral for which the claim was located is no longer subject to the Mining Law, BLM may declare your claim forfeited.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2014–2014 · leading case: Silver Buckle Mines, Inc. v. United States, 117 Fed. Cl. 786 (Fed. Cl. 2014).
Silver Buckle Mines, Inc. v. United States, 117 Fed. Cl. 786 (Fed. Cl. 2014). “§ 1744 , and 43 C.F.R. § 3836.15 ). If the latter argument is correct, that could simply mean that Congress, particularly with regard to older claims, “intended to ensure continued development of mineral resources on public lands in the West and to discourage holding undeveloped…”
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