Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102
§261 Prospecting Permits; Lands Included; Acreage
Title 30 › CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VII — SODIUM › § 261
Summary
Interior Secretary can, under rules he makes, give a qualified applicant an exclusive prospecting permit on U.S. lands up to two years for six sodium salts, limited to 2,560 acres reasonably compact.
Full Legal Text
Title 30, §261
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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to grant to any qualified applicant a prospecting permit which shall give the exclusive right to prospect for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of sodium, in lands belonging to the United States for a period of not exceeding two years: Provided, That the area to be included in such a permit shall not exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of land in reasonably compact form.
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Amendments
1928—Act Dec. 11, 1928, struck out “and directed” after “authorized”, “dissolved in and soluble in water, and accumulated by concentration, in lands belonging to the United States for a period not exceeding two years,” after “nitrates of sodium”, and last proviso which read “Provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands in San Bernardino County, California.”
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Citation
30 U.S.C. § 261
Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102