30 U.S.C. § 34 : US Code - Section 34: Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls

Search 30 U.S.C. § 34 : US Code - Section 34: Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls

The description of vein or lode claims upon surveyed lands shall
designate the location of the claims with reference to the lines of
the public survey, but need not conform therewith; but where
patents have been or shall be issued for claims upon unsurveyed
lands, the Director of the Bureau of Land Management in extending
the public survey, shall adjust the same to the boundaries of said
patented claims so as in no case to interfere with or change the
true location of such claims as they are officially established
upon the ground. Where patents have issued for mineral lands, those
lands only shall be segregated and shall be deemed to be patented
which are bounded by the lines actually marked, defined, and
established upon the ground by the monuments of the official survey
upon which the patent grant is based, and the Director of the
Bureau of Land Management in executing subsequent patent surveys,
whether upon surveyed or unsurveyed lands, shall be governed
accordingly. The said monuments shall at all times constitute the
highest authority as to what land is patented, and in case of any
conflict between the said monuments of such patented claims and the
descriptions of said claims in the patents issued therefor the
monuments on the ground shall govern, and erroneous or inconsistent
descriptions or calls in the patent descriptions shall give way
thereto.