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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... limit. As in the 1866 act it was qualified by an opaque reference to “regulations prescribed by law” and the less obscure incorporation of the customs or rules of the miners themselves.2 ... limits designed 17 3 The Mining Law: An Overview.
... limit. As in the 1866 act it was qualified by an opaque reference to “regulations prescribed by law” and the less obscure incorporation of the customs or rules of the miners themselves.2 ... limits designed 17 3 The Mining Law: An Overview.
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... limits designed to prevent monopolization of large deposits. (This was, it may be recalled, nearly twenty years before the first general antitrust law was enacted by Congress.) Thus Congress made a mineral prospector's right to ...
... limits designed to prevent monopolization of large deposits. (This was, it may be recalled, nearly twenty years before the first general antitrust law was enacted by Congress.) Thus Congress made a mineral prospector's right to ...
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... limit patents to the mineral deposit, and do not extend them to the surface.9 Finally, on all federal land today, access, mineral exploration, and development are subject to substantial governmental control through a host of statutes ...
... limit patents to the mineral deposit, and do not extend them to the surface.9 Finally, on all federal land today, access, mineral exploration, and development are subject to substantial governmental control through a host of statutes ...
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... limits to mineral activity.13 These exceptions were not unimportant in themselves, but more than that, each was a harbinger of the future. Two of the most important inroads made since 1872 on the free-access idea have grown out of these ...
... limits to mineral activity.13 These exceptions were not unimportant in themselves, but more than that, each was a harbinger of the future. Two of the most important inroads made since 1872 on the free-access idea have grown out of these ...
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... limits to the operation of federal laws that permitted their disposal into the private sector. Military installations and Indian reservations were the most typical examples of the need to safeguard some federal land from alienation ...
... limits to the operation of federal laws that permitted their disposal into the private sector. Military installations and Indian reservations were the most typical examples of the need to safeguard some federal land from alienation ...
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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