In mining law, rock or min-eralized matter is “in place” when remain-lng as nature placed it, that is, unsevered from the circumjacent rock, or which is fixed solid and immovable in the form -of a vein or lode. See williams v. Gibson, 84 Ala. 228, 4 South. 350, 5 Am. St. Rep. 868 ; Ste-vens ▼. williams, 23 Fed. Cas. 44; Tabor ▼. Dealer, 23 Fed. Cas. 615; Leadville Co. v. Fitzgerald, 15 Fed. Cas. 99; Jones ▼. Pros-pect Mountain Tunnel Co., 21 Nev. 839, 81 Pac. 645
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
