Pacifica Marine, Inc. v. Solomon Gold, Inc.

OPINION

FABE, Chief Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A bidder for mineral leases failed to turn in a required form that would have demonstrated that he was a citizen older than 18 and thus qualified to bid. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources' Division of Mining, Land & Water later allowed the bidder to remedy the omission, but on appeal the Department's Commissioner determined that the bidder's omission was not immaterial or due to excusable inadvertence and reversed the Director. As a result, the bidder lost his leases. The bidder unsue-cessfully appealed to the superior court and now…