Compilation of Selected Laws Concerning Minerals and Mining: With Amendments Through the 101st Congress : Prepared for the Use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 310 pages |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... limited to , impacts on the environment , on agricultural and other economic activities , and on public services . Prior to issuance of a lease , the Secretary shall evaluate and compare the effects of recovering coal by deep mining ...
... limited to , impacts on the environment , on agricultural and other economic activities , and on public services . Prior to issuance of a lease , the Secretary shall evaluate and compare the effects of recovering coal by deep mining ...
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... limited to , geological , geophysical , and core drilling analyses ) obtained during such exploration . The Secretary shall maintain the confidentiality of all data so obtained until after the areas involved have been leased or until ...
... limited to , geological , geophysical , and core drilling analyses ) obtained during such exploration . The Secretary shall maintain the confidentiality of all data so obtained until after the areas involved have been leased or until ...
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... limited licenses or permits to individuals or associations of individ- uals to prospect for , mine , and take for their use but not for sale , coal from the public lands without payment or royalty for the coal mined or the land occupied ...
... limited licenses or permits to individuals or associations of individ- uals to prospect for , mine , and take for their use but not for sale , coal from the public lands without payment or royalty for the coal mined or the land occupied ...
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... limited area of six hundred and sixty feet theretofore provided for upon such terms and condi- tions as he may prescribe . No claimant for a lease who has been guilty of any fraud or who had knowledge or reasonable grounds to know of ...
... limited area of six hundred and sixty feet theretofore provided for upon such terms and condi- tions as he may prescribe . No claimant for a lease who has been guilty of any fraud or who had knowledge or reasonable grounds to know of ...
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acid mine drainage acres Administrator adverse effects amended amount application appropriate approved centum certificate claimant coal mining operations commercial recovery conduct date of enactment deemed deep seabed deposits determines enforcement environmental established exploration February 25 Federal lands Federal program filed fiscal funds gas lease geothermal steam gilsonite granted hard mineral resources hundred Indian lands Indian tribe interest Interior issued pursuant lease issued lessee license or permit located ment Mineral Leasing Act mining and reclamation mining claim National necessary nonmineral notice oil and gas oil or gas oil shale paragraph patent payment penalty period permit issued permittee person placer mining prescribed prior production proposed purposes pursuant to section reasonable reclamation operations regulations regulatory authority rental request royalty Secretary of Agriculture Stat subsection surface coal mining surface mining surveys tar sand thereafter thereof tion United United States Code vein or lode violation
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Page 6 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 9 - ... the applicants, and they shall be at liberty to obtain the same at the most reasonable rates, and they shall also be at liberty to employ any United States deputy surveyor to make the survey.
Page 230 - These freedoms, and others which are recognized by the general principles of international law, shall be exercised by all States with reasonable regard to the interests of other States in their exercise of the freedom of the high seas.
Page 6 - ... to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted in a conspicuous place on the claim during such period of publication.
Page 259 - ... of such forfeitures shall apply to seizures and forfeitures incurred or alleged to have been incurred, under the provisions of this Act...
Page 13 - That deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, including those in national forests, but excluding lands acquired under the act known as the Appalachian Forest act, approved March 1, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page 961), and those in national parks, and in lands withdrawn or reserved for military or naval uses or purposes...
Page 43 - Interior the right to permit upon such terms as he may determine to be just, for joint or several use, such easements or rights of way, including easements in tunnels upon, through, or in the lands leased, occupied, or used as may be necessary or appropriate to the working of the same, or of other lands containing the deposits described in this act, and the treatment and shipment of the products thereof by or under authority of the Government, its lessees, or permittees, and for other public purposes...
Page 4 - The locators of all mining locations heretofore made or which shall hereafter be made, on any mineral vein, lode, or ledge...
Page 4 - ... failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.
Page 50 - That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this act...