Wyoming
Information Packet & Links
- BLM Establishes New Policy for Suction Dredging
- Wyoming Dept of Environmental Quality-Land Quality Division Guidelines and LQD’s noncoal permitting forms, bonds, reports
- Stock Raising Homestead Act - Public Information Handout
- Public Law 103-23 - To amend the Stock Raising Homestead Act to resolve problems regarding subsurface states, etc.
Directives
- 43 CFR 3800 Regulations - Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws; Surface Management
- 30 US Code: Sec. 299 - Reservation of Coal and Mineral Rights
Abandoned mine hazards on mining claims/sites
- Outreach to Mining Claimants about Abandoned Mine Hazards
- WO IM 2010-211 - Procedures for Identifying and Notifying Claimants on Active Mining Claims when Mitigating Abandoned Mine Hazards on Active Mining Claims
- WY-2011-005 - Mass Mailing of Notices to Claimants of Record Regarding Potential Abandoned Mine Hazards on Active Mining Claims
- Attach 1 – List of mining claimants/ claims identified in WY as “abandoned” hazard areas
Forms
- Form 3830-002 (September 2010) - Maintenance Fee Waiver Certification
- Form 3830-003 (September 2010) - Notice of Intent to Locate a Lode or Placer Mining Claim(s) and/or a Tunnel Site(s) on Lands Patented under the Stock Raising Homestead Act of 1916, as Amended by the Act of April 16, 1993
The Nevada State Division of Minerals and the State of Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resources have sample mining claim forms and can be downloaded from their websites. When using forms from either one of these sites, you will need to edit the forms to conform to Wyoming mining claims."
General BLM Information
- WYNF-0004 - Rockhounding on Public Lands
- WYNF-0005 - Where to Get More Information
- WYNF-0006 - Schedule of Available Records and Products
- WYNF-0007 - BLM Offices in Wyoming
- WYNF-0008 - BLM State Offices
- WYNF-0011 - Public Land Terms
- WYNF-0012 - Requirements for Locating and Maintaining Unpatented Mining Claims
- WYNF-0014 - Surface & Mineral Management Maps for Wyoming & Nebraska
- WYNF-0016 - Wyoming County Clerk Offices
- WYNF-0019 - Camping on Public Lands
- WYNF-0031 - Special Recreation Permits on Public Lands in Wyoming
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