118, 17 Am. Rep. 692; Sanderson v. Scranton, 105 Pa. 473.—Mining location. The act of appropriating and claiming, according to certain established rules and local cus toms, a parcel of land of defined area, upon or in which one or more of the precious metals or their ores have been discovered, and which constitutes = portion of the public domain, with the decla intention to occupy and work it for mining purposes under the implied license of the United States. Also the parcel of land so occupied and appropriated. See Poire v. Wells, 6