Title 30Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73

§182 Lands disposed of with reservation of deposits of coal, etc.

Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 3A— - LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 182

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

These rules apply to deposits on U.S. lands—coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), and gas—where the United States kept the right to mine and remove them.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §182

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The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to all deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas in the lands of the United States, which lands may have been or may be disposed of under laws reserving to the United States such deposits, with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same, subject to such conditions as are or may hereafter be provided by such laws reserving such deposits.

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Amendments

1981—Pub. L. 97–78 substituted “gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons),” for “native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock (including oil-impregnated rock or sands from which oil is recoverable only by special treatment after the deposit is mined or quarried)”. 1960—Pub. L. 86–705 included native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock.

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 182

Title 30Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73