---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3833.1"
title: "43"
number: "3833.1"
heading: "Why must I record mining claims and sites?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3833.1"
---

# §3833.1. Why must I record mining claims and sites?


FLPMA requires you to record all mining claims and sites with BLM and the local recording office in order to maintain a mining claim or site under the General Mining Law.

- (a) If you fail to record a mining claim or site with the BLM and the local recording office by the 90th day after the date of location, it is abandoned and void by operation of law.
- (b) Recording a mining claim or site, filing any other documents with BLM, or paying fees or service charges, as this part requires, does not make a claim or site valid if it not otherwise valid under applicable law.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 22 et seq., 621-625; 43 U.S.C. 2, 1201, 1457, 1701 et seq.; 62 Stat. 162; 115 Stat. 414.

### Source

Source: 68 FR 61071, Oct. 24, 2003, unless otherwise noted.