A piece of mining land awarded as a bonus to a prospector who discovers commercially valuable gold deposits in a new area.
he is entitled to a reward claim in addition to the ordinary claim
Example sentencesExamples
- The discoverers had applied for the reward claim.
- He shall not be entitled to a reward claim nor to a greater area of ground than an ordinary claim.
- This reward claim was granted in 1903 and has been worked spasmodically till the present.
- He was asked by the others to make the journey to Coolgardie to apply for a reward claim.
- I'll get the usual Government reward of five thousand pounds for the discovery and I can peg out my reward claim.
- He'd taken out a fair quantity of gold and had gone to Hobart to apply for a reward claim.
- A prospecting Reward Claim might be marked off within fourteen days from reporting the discovery.
- A prospector discovering payable gold and neglecting to report it not be entitled to a reward claim.
- Their reward claim was granted them by the warden at Southern Cross.
- The plaintiffs' predecessors were, therefore, clearly entitled to a reward claim.