QUOTE (Coalbunny @ Dec 2 2014, 08:28 PM)
Just a thought....
A few years ago I almost bought a few patented claims in Lake county colorado, and the county was telling me that even though they were patented mining claims, I would be prohibited by law from doing anything more than "recreational mining" because they were, as the county said "registered as patented recreational mining claims". They had no law to back it up and unless I was willing to dump tens of thousands of dollars sueing the county, it wasn't worth the fight.
I've pulled these posts from the taxing
unpatented claims thread and started another here since your thought was on
patented claim ownership.
Actually Coalbunny, there is no fight with the county as I see it needed for that situation. They/you already stated the obvious when saying " They had no law to back it up "........ End of story. That's all you needed if you would have in fact purchased the property and been the owner. No law to back their proclamations then the proclamations mean nothing. Just words to waste your air space that particular day.
I will also add for others reading in the future that county entities do play a part in mining depending on topic, no matter what state or county......it's not "different" here in Colorado than any other states.