Information Packet & Links

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• Federal Register Notice
• Mining Claim Fee Requirements
• Recreational Gold Dredging Guidelines
• DEQ Guideline No. 19 - Non-commercial Recreational Panning & Gold
• 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.
• How to Obtain Mineral Materials
• Mining Claims and Sites on Federals Lands Brochure
• Unexploded Military Munitions Brochure
• Fossils on America's Public Lands

Directives

• 43 CFR 3800 Regulations - Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws; Surface Management
• 43 CFR 3809 Regulations - Surface Management
• 30 US Code: Sec. 299. Reservation of Coal and Mineral Rights
• DEQ Guideline No. 19 - Gold Mining and Exploration

Forms

• Form 3830-2 (Mar 2007) - Maintenance Fee Waiver Certification
• Form 3830-3 (Mar 2007) - 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

Examples of Forms

• Maintenance fee Payment
• Affidavit for Annual Maintenance Fee Payment
• Affidavit of Annual Labor
• Affidavit of Annual Assessment Work
• Placer Mining Claim Location Notice
• Lode Mining Claim Location Notice

• Township Diagram 

General BLM Information

• WY 9160-1 - Surface and Mineral Management Maps - new
• 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-0016 - Wyoming County Clerk Offices
• WYNF-0019 - Camping on Public Lands
• WYNF-0031 - Special Recreation Permits on Public Lands in Wyoming
• Principal Meridians and Base Lines - small - large