Current mineral laws of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 109 pages |
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... public lands and also by enlightened mining industry spokesmen who realize this basic act of over 100 years ago is out of step with much present - day philosophy and technology . Since the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs is ...
... public lands and also by enlightened mining industry spokesmen who realize this basic act of over 100 years ago is out of step with much present - day philosophy and technology . Since the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs is ...
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... Public Land Policies : Historical development_ . Opening the frontier__ . Conservation - a new policy . Leasing Mineral access on acquired lands --- . Disposition of common variety minerals_ Offshore mineral access_ Recent developments in ...
... Public Land Policies : Historical development_ . Opening the frontier__ . Conservation - a new policy . Leasing Mineral access on acquired lands --- . Disposition of common variety minerals_ Offshore mineral access_ Recent developments in ...
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... PUBLIC LAND POLICIES : HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT One of the overriding problems facing the United States after its war of independence with Great Britain was lack of revenues . Alex- ander Hamilton promoted the idea of selling the public lands ...
... PUBLIC LAND POLICIES : HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT One of the overriding problems facing the United States after its war of independence with Great Britain was lack of revenues . Alex- ander Hamilton promoted the idea of selling the public lands ...
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... public lands open to exploration and occupa- tion , with the significant modification that the lands occupied must contain " valuable mineral deposits . " The details of the system established under this law will be consid- ered more ...
... public lands open to exploration and occupa- tion , with the significant modification that the lands occupied must contain " valuable mineral deposits . " The details of the system established under this law will be consid- ered more ...
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... public land bearing forests , in ( sic ) any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth , whether of commercial value or not , as public reservations * * * During this same period Congress began a ...
... public land bearing forests , in ( sic ) any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth , whether of commercial value or not , as public reservations * * * During this same period Congress began a ...
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41 Stat 60 Stat 72 Stat acquired acreage ADMISSION OF ALASKA amended application authorized bituminous rock chapter and sections claimant coal CODIFICATION Section DERIVATION Act discovery disposal drilling enacted extended filed gas leases interest Interior July 29 June 21 land office Lands Leasing Act lease issued leases or permits lessee lignite mineral deposits Mineral Lands Leasing Mineral Leasing Act mining claims mining laws nonmineral note under section notice oil and gas oil or gas oil shale operations OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF patent payment permit or lease permittee petrified wood phosphate placer claim placer mining potassium prescribed prior production prospecting permit pumicite REFERENCES IN TEXT repealed rules and regulations Secretary section 188a section 48 section lands SECTION REFERRED SECTIONS This section sodium subsec Surrender of leases surveys tar sands thereof title 10 sections Title 43 Title XXXII tracts vein or lode
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Page 54 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 36 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes, or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations.
Page 36 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, render such limitation necessary.
Page 38 - ... shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 11 - The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
Page 54 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 45 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall conform as near as practicable with the United States system of public land surveys, and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant...
Page 41 - ... together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons that such notice has been duly posted...
Page 42 - Where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication, it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim...
Page 46 - ... an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession 139 of the vein or lode claim...