Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73not60

§524 Reservation of Minerals to United States

Title 30 › Chapter 12— MULTIPLE MINERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SAME TRACTS › § 524

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

All mining claims and millsites that already get benefits under sections 521–523, or that were filed after August 13, 1954, must keep a reservation to the United States of all Leasing Act minerals (certain minerals the United States leases). Before a patent (official ownership document) is issued, the United States and the people it allows to work its leases must be allowed to enter the land to look for, drill for, mine, treat, store, move, and remove those minerals, and to use as much of the surface and underground as needed for those activities. Any patent must include that reservation.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §524

Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Every mining claim or millsite—

(1)heretofore located under the mining laws of the United States which shall be entitled to benefits under sections 521 to 523 of this title; or

(2)located under the mining laws of the United States after August 13, 1954 shall be subject, prior to issuance of a patent therefor, to a reservation to the United States of all Leasing Act minerals and of the right (as limited in section 526 of this title) of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim or millsite and to prospect for, drill for, mine, treat, store, transport, and remove Leasing Act minerals and to use so much of the surface and subsurface of such mining claim or millsite as may be necessary for such purposes, and whenever reasonably necessary, for the purpose of prospecting for, drilling for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, and removing Leasing Act minerals on and from other lands; and any patent issued for any such mining claim or millsite shall contain such reservation as to, but only as to, such lands covered thereby which at the time of the issuance of such patent were—

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 524

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60