Any person who is not engaged in the prosecution of lawfully authorized searches and who digs, mines, removes, or cleanses phosphate rock or phosphatic deposits from the beds of the navigable streams of this state or from any public lands on the banks and margins thereof without having first obtained a license as required by Code Section 12-4-100 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 125, § 4; Penal Code 1895, § 203; Penal Code 1910, § 201; Code 1933, § 43-9902.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Mines and Minerals, § 238.
C.J.S.- 58 C.J.S., Mines and Minerals, §§ 409 et seq., 445 et seq.
PART 2 GOLD
Cross references.
- Persons engaged in business of dealing in gold, silver, or platinum, T. 43, C. 37.