If it is someone else's land you cannot claim it and there is pretty much no land left that no one owns. However if you do discover gold and it is not owned by a person and determining on how long you've been there you can check into squatters rights. Though if it is on your land you own the gold and no one can touch it but you. But if no one owns the land not Evan the government owns it and that's where squatters rights come in, this only applies to so many states though, but this is very unlikely.
with a hammer and a stake
yes, no matter what your nationality is.
Oh, dude, staking a claim in the book "By the Great Horn Spoon" is like staking a claim in real life, you know? Miners in the book would typically go out, find a spot they think has gold, and then put up some stakes to mark their territory, claiming it as their own. It's all about that "finders keepers" mentality, like, "This gold is mine, hands off, bro!"
You ask for THE figurative image and there would be many of them, however the origin of the expression is from the gold rush when people would stick a stake in the ground to claim a piece of land.
I staked a claim in gold country. I used a stake to help my tomato vine. After he made his bet, I raised my stake.
Staking a claim regards asserting claim and or control over an aforementioned object or quantity. The infinitive verb "to stake," historically referred to a wooden marker, also known as a "stake," used to mark property.
People can not stake a claim to land unless they have the legal right to. Having proof of ownership in the form of a deed is the best way to claim land.
They literally staked a claim by putting pegs(stakes) in the corners of the area claimed.
Well a homesteader is were a pioneer or persone makes there claim and that is were they live there.
No. Children were not required to have licences, as they could not stake a formal claim, or trade any gold they found. Children did not work the claims and the diggings: they only worked the mullock heaps.
Italy does not mine for gold of diamonds. Italy does, however, mine for gold.
To stake her claim.