lode location

A mining claim where the appropriation purports to be a claim to a lode. In the location of mining claims there are two kinds of locations, lode and placer, which differ somewhat. A discovery within the limits of the claim is equally essential to both. But to sustain a lode location the discovery must be of a vein or lode of rock in place, bearing valuable mineral; and to sustain a placer location it must be of some other form of valuable mineral deposit, one such being scattered particles of gold found in the softer covering of the earth. A placer discovery will not sustain a lode location, nor a lode discovery a placer location. Cole v Ralph, 252 US 286, 295, 64 L Ed 567, 577, 40 S Ct 321.