Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
§ 41. Intersecting or crossing veins
Statutory text
Where two or more veins intersect or cross each other, priority of title shall govern, and such prior location shall be entitled to all ore or mineral contained within the space of intersection; but the subsequent location shall have the right-of-way through the space of intersection for the purposes of the convenient working of the mine. And where two or more veins unite, the oldest or prior location shall take the vein below the point of union, including all the space of intersection.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 2336.)
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 41
(R.S. § 2336.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 2336.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 2336 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, § 14, 17 Stat. 96.
Credits
(R.S. § 2336.)