§284 — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

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The government can give permits or leases for potassium (potash) on public land that also has coal or other minerals. The other mineral rights must be kept by the United States and handled under the proper laws. If it helps both the government and the leaseholder, a potassium lease can require the leaseholder to develop related sodium, magnesium, aluminum, or calcium compounds (for example chlorides, sulfates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates). Those lease terms must not conflict with the sodium rules in subchapter VII. If valuable minerals covered by the general mining laws are found in fissure veins on the land, those minerals stay under the general mining laws even if potash is present.

Title 30, §284

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Prospecting permits or leases may be issued under the provisions of this subchapter for deposits of potassium in public lands, also containing deposits of coal or other minerals, on condition that such other deposits be reserved to the United States for disposal under appropriate laws: Provided, That if the interests of the Government and of the lessee will be subserved thereby, potassium leases may include covenants providing for the development by the lessee of chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, magnesium, aluminum, or calcium, associated with the potassium deposits leased, on terms and conditions not inconsistent with the sodium provisions of subchapter VII of this chapter: Provided further, That where valuable deposits of mineral now subject to disposition under the general mining laws are found in fissure veins on any of the lands subject to permit or lease under this subchapter, the valuable minerals so found shall continue subject to disposition under the said general mining laws notwithstanding the presence of potash therein.

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The sodium provisions of subchapter VII of this chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “the sodium provisions of the Act of February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 437)”, which means sections 23 to 25 of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 447, which are classified to subchapter VII (§ 261 et seq.) of this chapter. Codification Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this chapter.

§284 Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases

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Title 30, §284

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