Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60
§282 Leases to Permittees of Lands Showing Valuable Deposits; Royalty
Title 30 › Chapter 3A— LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › Subchapter IX— POTASH › § 282
Summary
Permittee proves to the Secretary of the Interior that a listed deposit is on permit land chiefly valuable for it; the permittee may lease any or all of the land. Lease must pay at least 2% royalty on potassium and related products excluding sodium at shipment, and be compact subdivisions or, if unsurveyed, surveyed at permittee cost.
Full Legal Text
Title 30, §282
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Upon showing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that valuable deposits of one of the substances enumerated in this subchapter has been discovered by the permittee within the area covered by his permit, and that such land is chiefly valuable therefor, the permittee shall be entitled to a lease for any or all of the land embraced in the prospecting permit, at a royalty of not less than 2 per centum of the quantity or gross value of the output of potassium compounds and other related products, except sodium, at the point of shipment to market, such lease to be taken in compact form by legal subdivisions of the public land surveys, or if the land be not surveyed, by survey executed at the cost of the permittee in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
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Editorial Notes
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.
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30 U.S.C. § 282
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60