Title 30

Mineral Lands and Mining

580 sections in this title, page 4 of 6.

§ 229a

Water struck while drilling for oil and gas

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IV — OIL AND GAS

§ 23

Length of claims on veins or lodes

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 233a

Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IV — OIL AND GAS

§ 236a

Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IV — OIL AND GAS

§ 236b

Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IV — OIL AND GAS

§ 24

Proof of citizenship

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 241

Leases of lands

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER V — OIL SHALE

§ 242

Oil shale claims

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER V — OIL SHALE

§ 25

Affidavit of citizenship

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 251

Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VI — ALASKA OIL PROVISO

§ 26

Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 261

Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VII — SODIUM

§ 262

Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VII — SODIUM

§ 263

Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VII — SODIUM

§ 27

Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 271

Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — SULPHUR

§ 272

Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — SULPHUR

§ 273

Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — SULPHUR

§ 274

Lands containing coal or other minerals

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — SULPHUR

§ 275

Laws applicable

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — SULPHUR

§ 276

Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER VIII — SULPHUR

§ 28

Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner’s succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 281

Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 282

Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 283

Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 284

Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 285

Laws applicable

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 286

Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 287

Extension of prospecting permits

CHAPTER 3A — LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS › SUBCHAPTER IX — POTASH

§ 28b

Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28c

Length and termination of deferment

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28d

Performance of deferred work

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28e

Recordation of deferment

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28f

Fee

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28g

Location fee

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28h

Co-ownership

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28i

Failure to pay

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28j

Other requirements

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28k

Regulations

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28l

Collection of mining law administration fees

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28–1

Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 28–2

Definitions

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 29

Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant’s agent for execution of application and affidavits

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 291

Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims

CHAPTER 4 — LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS

§ 292

Royalties and rentals; disposition

CHAPTER 4 — LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS

§ 293

Duties of Secretary of the Interior

CHAPTER 4 — LEASE OF GOLD, SILVER, OR QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS WHEN TITLE CONFIRMED BY COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS

§ 3

Duties of United States Bureau of Mines

CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES

§ 30

Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants’ filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 301

Authorization for lease of oil and gas deposits; by and to whom leased

CHAPTER 5 — LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY

§ 302

Assignment of lease; subletting

CHAPTER 5 — LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY

§ 303

Conditions precedent to award of lease; preferred class; bidding

CHAPTER 5 — LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY

§ 304

Provisions authorized in lease

CHAPTER 5 — LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY

§ 305

Royalties under lease

CHAPTER 5 — LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY

§ 306

Rules and regulations

CHAPTER 5 — LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER RIGHTS-OF-WAY

§ 31

Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 32

Findings by jury; costs

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 33

Existing rights

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 34

Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 35

Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 351

Definitions

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 352

Deposits subject to lease; consent of department heads; lands excluded

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 353

Sale of lands unaffected; reservation of mineral rights; sale subject to prior lease; naval petroleum reserves unaffected

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 354

Lease of partial or future interests in deposits

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 355

Disposition of receipts

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 356

Furnishing description of lands and title documents; recordation of documents; authenticated copies

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 357

State or local government rights; taxation

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 358

Rights under prior leases; priority of pending applications; exchange of leases

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 359

Rules and regulations

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 36

Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 360

Authority to manage certain mineral leases

CHAPTER 7 — LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS

§ 37

Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 38

Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 39

Surveyors of mining claims

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 4

Investigation of lignite coal and peat

CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES

§ 40

Verification of affidavits

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 401

Establishment of research laboratory; duties

CHAPTER 8 — DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES

§ 402

Acquisition of lands and property; utilization of voluntary services; cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies

CHAPTER 8 — DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES

§ 404

Establishment of an advisory committee; composition and appointment

CHAPTER 8 — DEVELOPMENT OF LIGNITE COAL RESOURCES

§ 41

Intersecting or crossing veins

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 411

Establishment and operation of experimental plant

CHAPTER 9 — RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION

§ 412

Acquisition of lands and interests; acceptance of money and property; disposition and use of money

CHAPTER 9 — RARE AND PRECIOUS METALS EXPERIMENT STATION

§ 42

Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 43

Conditions of sale by local legislature

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 46

Additional land districts and officers

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 47

Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 48

Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49

Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49a

Mining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49b

Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49c

Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49d

Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49e

Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 49f

Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 4b

Cooperation with individuals, municipalities, etc.; contracts with owners; agreements as to prices

CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES

§ 4c

Investigation of sub-bituminous and lignite coal

CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES

§ 4d

Plants, machinery, and equipment

CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES

§ 5

Reports of investigations

CHAPTER 1 — UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES

§ 50

Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands

CHAPTER 2 — MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

§ 501

Mining claims located between July 31, 1939, and January 1, 1953

CHAPTER 11 — MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS

§ 502

Reservation of minerals to the United States; rights of entry, disposition and removal

CHAPTER 11 — MINING CLAIMS ON LANDS SUBJECT TO MINERAL LEASING LAWS

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Water struck while drilling for oil and gas

Length of claims on veins or lodes

Permits or leases of certain lands in Okla­homa; retention of royalties

Lands in naval petroleum reserves and naval oil-shale reserves; effect of other laws

Existing leases within naval petroleum reserves not affected

Proof of citizenship

Leases of lands

Oil shale claims

Affidavit of citizenship

Leases to claimants of withdrawn lands; terms and conditions; acreage; annual rentals and royalties; fraud of claimants

Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment

Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

Leases to permittees; survey of lands; royalties and annual rentals

Permits to use or lease of nonmineral lands for camp sites, and other purposes; annual rentals; acreage

Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right

Prospecting permits; lands included; acreage

Leases to permittees; privileges extended to oil and gas permittees

Lease of lands not covered by permits or leases; acreage; rental

Lands containing coal or other minerals

Laws applicable

Application of subchapter to Louisiana and New Mexico only

Prospecting permits for chlorides, sulphates, carbonates, borates, silicates, or nitrates of potassium; authorization; acreage; lands affected

Leases to permittees of lands showing valuable deposits; royalty

Lands containing valuable deposits not covered by permits or leases; authority to lease; acreage; conditions; renewals; exemptions from rentals and royalties; suspension of operations

Lands containing coal or other minerals in addition to potassium deposits; issuance of prospecting permits and leases; covenants in potassium leases

Laws applicable

Disposition of royalties and rents from potassium leases

Extension of prospecting permits

Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions

Length and termination of deferment

Performance of deferred work

Recordation of deferment

Fee

Location fee

Co-ownership

Failure to pay

Other requirements

Regulations

Collection of mining law administration fees

Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions

Definitions

Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims

Royalties and rentals; disposition

Duties of Secretary of the Interior

Duties of United States Bureau of Mines

Authorization for lease of oil and gas deposits; by and to whom leased

Assignment of lease; subletting

Conditions precedent to award of lease; preferred class; bidding

Provisions authorized in lease

Royalties under lease

Rules and regulations

Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim

Findings by jury; costs

Existing rights

Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls

Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land

Definitions

Deposits subject to lease; consent of department heads; lands excluded

Sale of lands unaffected; reservation of mineral rights; sale subject to prior lease; naval petroleum reserves unaffected

Lease of partial or future interests in deposits

Disposition of receipts

Furnishing description of lands and title documents; recordation of documents; authenticated copies

State or local government rights; taxation

Rights under prior leases; priority of pending applications; exchange of leases

Rules and regulations

Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements

Authority to manage certain mineral leases

Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent

Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent

Surveyors of mining claims

Investigation of lignite coal and peat

Verification of affidavits

Establishment of research laboratory; duties

Acquisition of lands and property; utilization of voluntary services; cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies

Establishment of an advisory committee; composition and appointment

Intersecting or crossing veins

Establishment and operation of experimental plant

Acquisition of lands and interests; acceptance of money and property; disposition and use of money

Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment

Conditions of sale by local legislature

Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties

Permits or leases of certain lands in Oklahoma; retention of royalties