Current mineral laws of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1976 - 109 pages |
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... districts in the United States . Although Congress took up the question in 1850 , it was 16 years before a mining law was ... district and had expended at least $ 1,000 in actual labor and improvements . The fee for a patent was a modest ...
... districts in the United States . Although Congress took up the question in 1850 , it was 16 years before a mining law was ... district and had expended at least $ 1,000 in actual labor and improvements . The fee for a patent was a modest ...
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... district so long as such regulations are not in con- flict with state or Federal laws . The only specified requirements are that the location be " distinctly marked on the ground so that its boun- daries can be readily traced " and that ...
... district so long as such regulations are not in con- flict with state or Federal laws . The only specified requirements are that the location be " distinctly marked on the ground so that its boun- daries can be readily traced " and that ...
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... districts and have passed a rather bewildering variety of location procedures for claims filed on public domain lands within their boundaries . These state procedures extend to 4 general areas : posting location notices , marking ...
... districts and have passed a rather bewildering variety of location procedures for claims filed on public domain lands within their boundaries . These state procedures extend to 4 general areas : posting location notices , marking ...
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... district , the geological conditions , the fact that similar veins in the particular locality have been explored with success , and other like facts , would all be 1 This requirement should be distinguished from the discovery work ...
... district , the geological conditions , the fact that similar veins in the particular locality have been explored with success , and other like facts , would all be 1 This requirement should be distinguished from the discovery work ...
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... District of Columbia Court of Appeals in the 1959 case of Foster v . Seaton : With respect to widespread non - metallic minerals such as sand and gravel , however , the Department has stressed the additional requirement of present ...
... District of Columbia Court of Appeals in the 1959 case of Foster v . Seaton : With respect to widespread non - metallic minerals such as sand and gravel , however , the Department has stressed the additional requirement of present ...
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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...