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  • The Law of the Miner: The Arizona Experience

    The Law of the Miner by Lacy, John C.;

    The Arizona Experience

    Series: Mining and Society Series;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher University of Nevada Press
    • Date of Publication 15 September 2026

    • ISBN 9781647792503
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 666 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations b&w - 1 Maps
    • 700

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    The first adventurers into the New World faced a fundamental legal challenge: how to secure rights to any mineral claims they discovered. Early conquistadors worked under charters that required them to return a portion of their findings to the Spanish crown, but those without such charters had no formal protection—and the crown was slow to clarify individual rights. This uncertainty only grew as miners pushed into the lands that would become the Western United States.

    When gold was discovered in California, miners suddenly found themselves operating without any governing laws during the period between the end of the war with Mexico and the establishment of formal U.S. jurisdiction. In response, and without official sanction, they formed self-governing ""mining districts,"" best understood as mutual protection societies. These districts marked the first organized attempt to define boundaries and create rules for establishing and maintaining mining claims. As the early rushes in California and Nevada subsided, miners carried these practices with them into Arizona and other western territories.

    In Arizona, no comprehensive collection of these early regulations has ever existed. The Law of the Miner addresses this gap by tracing the development of mineral law in early Arizona and presenting the full text of every mining district regulation that could be found. This work serves both the mining industry and historians seeking to identify the individuals involved in creating the districts and to understand these districts' historical boundaries.

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    Table of Contents:

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    Contents
    List of Illustrations
    Preface and Acknowledgments
    Chapter 1. Prologue—Legends and First Attempts at a Mining Law for the New World
    The ""Kearny Code"" of Law
    The Ad Hoc Mining Rules of the First Prospectors
    The Doña Ana County Official Records
    The Alcalde of Tubac
    The First Gold Rushes
    The Silver of Southeastern Arizona
    The Maturing of the District Rule
    The General Mining Laws of the First Arizona Legislature
    The United States Congress Finally Acts
    The Federal Mining Laws, 1866–72
    The Repeal of the Territorial Mining Code
    Transitional Regulations, 1866–72
    Post-1872 Mining District Regulations
    The ""Governmental"" Functions of the Mining Districts
    The ""End"" of Mining Districts
    Statewide Mining Laws Supersede the District Regulations
    General Legislation Regulating the Mining Industry
    The Evolution of the Claim-Staking Process
    Appendix A. Mining Districts of Arizona
    Appendix B. Full Text of Arizona Mining District Regulations
    Appendix C. Names
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index
    About the Author
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