Federal - Mining

摘要

In Consolidated Golden Quail Resources, Ltd. (On Judicial Remand), 183 IBLA 250, GFS(MIN) 7(2013) (Golden Quail III), the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) addressed the argument that mining claim maintenance fees were not due for the 2010 assessment year under the claim maintenance fee statute in effect at the time such fees were due. Golden Quail III was a continuation of an earlier case, Consolidated Golden Quail Resources, Ltd., 179 IBLA 309, GFS(MIN) 7(2010) (Golden Quail I), in which IBLA affirmed the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) decision that the claimants' mining claims were void for failure to pay maintenance fees by September 1, 2009, for the 2010 assessment year.