The Mining Law: A Study in Perpetual MotionRoutledge, 2015 M09 16 - 544 pages Originally published in 1987, John D. Leshy presents this scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law as a legal treatise and history of mining in the West from the point of view of mineral exploration and production. This mining law governed the United States mining practice yet had never been changed. The Mining Law attempts to highlight the role of policy and government as well as the more obscure elements of the law which complicated mining practice in the eighties. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and policy makers. |
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... public. The organization does not perform proprietary research. RFF research is primarily social scientific, especially economic, and is concerned with the relationship of people to the natural environment—the basic resources of land ...
... public. The organization does not perform proprietary research. RFF research is primarily social scientific, especially economic, and is concerned with the relationship of people to the natural environment—the basic resources of land ...
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... Law of 1866 form one of the legends of public land law. In the end, both those who favored settlement and those who favored a more pure ratification of the status quo were beaten back, and the 1866 law was adopted. When the 1866 law and ...
... Law of 1866 form one of the legends of public land law. In the end, both those who favored settlement and those who favored a more pure ratification of the status quo were beaten back, and the 1866 law was adopted. When the 1866 law and ...
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... Public Land Commission decried the “frequent, vexatious, costly, and damaging litigations” for which it blamed inadequacies in the federal law.21 The problem has not been eased by the development of thousands of precedents over nearly ...
... Public Land Commission decried the “frequent, vexatious, costly, and damaging litigations” for which it blamed inadequacies in the federal law.21 The problem has not been eased by the development of thousands of precedents over nearly ...
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... lands, and thus is plainly out of step with modern values. At one extreme, free access is seen as the embodiment of the birthright of the American citizen to discover, locate, and own mining claims under the public-land law, a ...
... lands, and thus is plainly out of step with modern values. At one extreme, free access is seen as the embodiment of the birthright of the American citizen to discover, locate, and own mining claims under the public-land law, a ...
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... laws for the disposal of public land are necessarily general in their nature.” Where “conditions may so change” as to require land to be withheld “in the public interest,” Congress may grant that power by implication.24 Although this ...
... laws for the disposal of public land are necessarily general in their nature.” Where “conditions may so change” as to require land to be withheld “in the public interest,” Congress may grant that power by implication.24 Although this ...
Contents
The Up and Down Sides of Free Access in Operation | |
The Mining Laws Ingenious Machinery in Operation | |
Federal Minerals under Privately Owned Surface | |
The Role of the Executive and the Courts | |
A Brief History | |
15 Can Two Million Potential Property Interests on the Federal Lands Be Wrong? | |
16 The Leasing Alternativeand Strategic Minerals | |
Prospects for Change | |
The Mining Law Excerpted | |
Outline of Typical Miners Rules | |
7 Evolution of the Law of Discovery | |
Policy and Applications | |
Multiple Claims and the Mining Law | |
10 Regulating Mining Law Activities to Protect the Environment | |
11 The Special Problem of Wilderness | |
Notes by Chapter | |
Acronyms Used Frequently in the Text | |
Name Index | |
Subject Index | |
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