A word to the wise-miners and their kin still have a powerful following both inside and outside of the state and the federal government. I would not go around pulling up those things unless i had a fed or state mining expert standing next to me. These miner guys are very territorial and are always armed and one of the first things I learned when I went to work in BLM was not to argue with these folks-even though you know the claim is not legal, valid or maybe not even on public land and just say "Yes sir, thank you and good by".and back out let the LEO's/management handle the problem. They think and act like a claim is the same thing as saying that it is their land and no one else or use is allowed.
And example of the power of the mining laws: Several years before I retired, I received a phone call from some local Indians, who informed me that there were a whole bunch of claim markers all over a protected area near Honey Lake. The area was fenced, signed and officially withdrawn by the BLM from mining entry back in the early 80's. because of cultural and natural values. The area (700 or so acres) was a known ethnographic village site and people were living there in the 1920's and some local Indians i delt with had been born there. Up until this time, the major problem out there were either dirt bikes riding thru the sand dunes or pot hunters collecting artifacts every time the wind blew the dunes to new positions and exposed burials and house structures. Adjac. to the dunes (on some private land and also covered by claim markers) were a series of hot springs that were being developed into hot houses to grow winter vegies. Who ever put these claim markers up had never looked at the land status maps that are designed for public use so that things like this would not happen-probably did not even care anyway-miners think they can do what they want. Me, I turned this case over to LE and they not me or my manager dealt with this guy and he was getting to move dirt when they ran him down and stopped his proposed mine.
A follow up on this; the guy had developed a process to get gold from sand dunes and was very serious about and had even developed something that looked like a big vacuum like thing that sucked the gold from the sand-it gets worse, he was so sure that his process worked that he sent us a mining plan(s)-with all the fees and paper work to work a large claim up in NW Nevada and we had to process and let him do is thing)! He found his claims by flying over the land until his water witcher like thing vibrated (that meant a gold was there), then he landed and marked his claim. Don't think he struck it rich up here, but still we had to treat him like any other miner. So again, they do have power, so don't go pulling things up unless you have the man standing right next to you.
Smoke