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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... suffrage was born in a mining camp in Wyoming in 1868/69.10 Some of the wild burros and horses that plague modern ranchers and land managers are descended from those that accompanied early prospectors. Even INTRODUCTION 3.
... suffrage was born in a mining camp in Wyoming in 1868/69.10 Some of the wild burros and horses that plague modern ranchers and land managers are descended from those that accompanied early prospectors. Even INTRODUCTION 3.
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... prospectors. Even our current president has his own connection to the Mining Law—the logo of “Death Valley Days,” a television show hosted by Mr. Reagan, was a twenty-mule team hauling borax from Mining Law claims that survive yet today ...
... prospectors. Even our current president has his own connection to the Mining Law—the logo of “Death Valley Days,” a television show hosted by Mr. Reagan, was a twenty-mule team hauling borax from Mining Law claims that survive yet today ...
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... prospectors to avoid the nuisance of dealing with multifarious nonfederal owners of lands likely to contain mineral prospects. Perhaps considerations of national security were behind retention of mineral lands, because this allowed the ...
... prospectors to avoid the nuisance of dealing with multifarious nonfederal owners of lands likely to contain mineral prospects. Perhaps considerations of national security were behind retention of mineral lands, because this allowed the ...
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... Prospectors had fanned out across the West, discovering in relatively rapid succession viable ore bodies in many scattered places. In the original placer mines in the Sierra foothills the miners began using increasingly sophisticated ...
... Prospectors had fanned out across the West, discovering in relatively rapid succession viable ore bodies in many scattered places. In the original placer mines in the Sierra foothills the miners began using increasingly sophisticated ...
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... prospector's right to exclusive occupancy of a tract of federal land (gained, in Mining Law parlance, by locating a claim) dependent upon prior discovery of a valuable mineral deposit. Mining claims could be located only after discovery ...
... prospector's right to exclusive occupancy of a tract of federal land (gained, in Mining Law parlance, by locating a claim) dependent upon prior discovery of a valuable mineral deposit. Mining claims could be located only after discovery ...
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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