| 31. | The following summer he filed mining claims in both the Cascades and Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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| 32. | :: I've got a mining claim near Leadville, Colorado.
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| 33. | Gold mining is one of the most common uses for the staking of mining claims.
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| 34. | Tunnels and mining claim-marker posts still dot the area.
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| 35. | Wyatt also staked mining claims just outside Death Valley and elsewhere in the Mojave Desert.
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| 36. | There were 150 patented mine claims within the area.
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| 37. | In 1914, Cameron filed another application for a patent on his Cape Horn mining claim.
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| 38. | Humanitarian officials said land mines claim one victim every 20 minutes, most of them civilians.
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| 39. | Rock Creek was platted in 1903, probably due to mining claims in the nearby Baker.
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| 40. | The first mining claims were staked in 1870.
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