PROSPECTING: This is the first stage of the geological analysis of a territory. It is the search for minerals, fossils, precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking, MINING CLAIM: It is the right to explore for and extract minerals from a tract of land., CLAIM STAKING: This is the required procedure of marking the boundaries of the mining claim, typically with wooden posts or substantial piles of rocks., LODE CLAIM: It is also known in California as a quartz claim; it is a claim over a hard rock deposit., PLACER CLAIM: It is a claim over gold-bearing, sand or gravel, often along a stream or river., PUBLIC DOMAIN LAND: is land that cannot be sold because it legally belongs to the citizenry. Public domain land is managed by a public entity., The General Mining Act of US was approved in 1872 and the first Chilean Mining Act in 1874 but modified in 1888. after the Saltpetre exportation tax,

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