Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60
§102 Assessment Work on Contiguous Oil Lands, Located as Claims, of Same Owner
Title 30 › Chapter 3— LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE › Subchapter III— PETROLEUM, OTHER MINERAL OIL, OR GAS LAND ENTRIES UNDER MINING LAWS › § 102
Summary
When oil land is held as a placer mining claim, the owner can do the required yearly work on just one claim in a group of up to five adjoining claims owned by the same person or company, as long as that work helps develop or tests whether the nearby claims contain oil.
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Title 30, §102
Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Where oil lands are located under the provisions of section 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43 as placer mining claims, the annual assessment labor upon such claims may be done upon any one of a group of claims lying contiguous and owned by the same person or corporation, not exceeding five claims in all, where such labor will tend to the development or to determine the oil-bearing character of such contiguous claims.
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section 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original “title thirty-two, chapter six, Revised Statutes of the United States”, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.
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30 U.S.C. § 102
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60