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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73

§3 Duties of United States Bureau of Mines

Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES › § 3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

With the Secretary of the Interior’s approval, the Bureau of Mines must study mining and how minerals are prepared, treated, and used to improve health, safety, efficiency, help the economy, and save resources by preventing waste in mining, quarrying, metal processing, and other mineral industries. It must also study economic conditions, explosives, peat, and mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products that belong to or are for use by the United States, and share its findings to carry out the purposes of sections 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §3

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

It shall be the province and duty of the United States Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; to investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use; and to disseminate information concerning these subjects in such manner as will best carry out the purposes of the provisions of section 1, 3, and 5 to 7 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“United States Bureau of Mines” substituted in text for “Bureau of Mines” pursuant to section 10(b) of Pub. L. 102–285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. For provisions relating to closure and

Transfer of Functions

of the United States Bureau of Mines, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 1 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

30 U.S.C. § 3

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73