Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102
§3 Duties of United States Bureau of Mines
Title 30 › CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES › § 3
Summary
With the Secretary of the Interior’s approval, the Bureau of Mines must study mining—how minerals are extracted, processed, and used—to improve health and safety, raise efficiency, help the economy, and prevent waste in mining industries. It must study economics, investigate explosives and peat, examine federal mineral fuels and unfinished products, and share findings to support sections 1, 3, and 5–7.
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
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Citation
30 U.S.C. § 3
Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102