The statute has recognized what the experience of the miner has proven, that the same land may contain both a placer and a lode; or more accurately speaking, that placer ground may likewise contain a vein or lode.11 When this occurs, both may be located by the same claimant and patent so acquired, or the placer claim may be located by one locator and the lode by another locator.12 13

11 Reynolds vs. Iron Silver Min. Co., 116 U. S., 687; Noyes vs. Mantle, 127 U. S., 348.

12 Iron Silver Min. Co. vs. Sullivan, 5 McCreay (U. S.), 274.

13 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, Vol. XX, p. 699.