claim staking
Asserting land rights
Claim staking is the act of marking boundaries to establish ownership or rights over land, especially for mining or homesteading.
Historically, prospectors drove physical stakes into the ground to claim mineral rights.
The term extends figuratively to any act of establishing prior claim or territorial rights: The company's early claim staking in the streaming market paid off.
- pickaxePointed digging implement
- digUnearth by shoveling
- mining campSettlement near ore extraction
- mining claimsLegal extraction territory rights
- mineral rightsClaim to underground resources
boundary · stake · title deeds · registration forms · homesteading · legal disputes · frontier justice · marker · post · property records · panning · territorial claims · sluicing · California Gold Rush · land surveying · land grab · zoning laws · flag
- US Mininggold mining, silver mining, copper mining, coal miner, iron mining
- gold mininggold pan, pan, panning, nuggets, gold nugget
- KlondikeKlondike, stampeders, sourdoughs, sourdough, gold claims
- mining historyminers, gold pan, gold mining, pickaxes, silver mining
- prospectinggold panning, panning, prospecting, metal detector, sluicing
- resource explorationprospecting, drilling, geological survey, core sampling, wildcatting
claim stakingrelinquishment
Formal giving up
forfeiture · renunciation · divestiture · ceding · disclaiming
claim stakingprospecting
Searching for mineral wealth
scouting · reconnaissance · surveying · window shopping · browsing