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regulations. Colorado's statute itself is clear and unambiguous when it states that "the <br /> discoverer of a lode, within three months from the date of discovery, shall record his <br /> claim in the office of the recorder of the county in which such lode is situated...." See <br /> C.R.S. § 3443-013. <br /> Mr. Schifrin tested that the when a claimant posts an initial discovery notice, <br /> "the posting holds the ground for that claimant." Mr. Schifrin's testimony is consistent <br /> with the law. "The purpose of posting a notice of location on the ground is to give the <br /> public the information contained in the notice and to warn others of the prior <br /> appropriation." "It serves to protect the locator by granting exclusive possession of the <br /> claim during the time allowed by statue or regulation in which to complete the location." <br /> 58 C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 70; 2 Rocky Mt. Mineral L. Foundation, American L. of <br /> Mining, 2d Ed., § 33.03{2} citing Erhardt v. Boaro, 113 U. S. 527 (1885)("In effect, <br /> posting withdraws the ground from claimed location by others" and during the "period of <br /> time allowed for completion of the location, a subsequent locator cannot initiate a <br /> location in the area within which the first claimant is protected."). <br /> When Mr. Skinner posted the discovery notice on June 1, 2005, this held the <br /> ground for 90 days and no other person could come in a make a claim or relocate the <br /> claim. When Mr. Congdon filed his location certificates on August 5, 2005 the White <br /> Banks Claims were not open to location by Mr. Congdon or any other claimant. <br /> Plaintiffs had until approximately August 29 of 2005 to complete the acts of location and <br /> no one could come in and make a claim during this time period, including Mr. Congdon. <br />