Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60
§182 Lands Disposed of with Reservation of Deposits of Coal, Etc.
Title 30 › Chapter 3A— LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter I— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 182
Summary
Applies to coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including vein‑type solid hydrocarbons), and gas on U.S. lands, even when the land was transferred but the United States kept deposit rights under reservation laws.
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Title 30, §182
Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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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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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30 U.S.C. § 182
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60