Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2. Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
54 sections
- 21Mineral lands reserved
- 21aNational mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
- 22Lands open to purchase by citizens
- 23Length of claims on veins or lodes
- 24Proof of citizenship
- 25Affidavit of citizenship
- 26Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
- 27Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
- 28Mining district regulations by miners: location, recordation, and amount of work; marking of location on ground; records; annual labor or improvements on claims pending issue of patent; co-owner’s succession in interest upon delinquency in contributing proportion of expenditures; tunnel as lode expenditure
- 28–1Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
- 28–2Definitions
- 28aOmitted
- 28bAnnual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
- 28cLength and termination of deferment
- 28dPerformance of deferred work
- 28eRecordation of deferment
- 28fFee
- 28gLocation fee
- 28hCo-ownership
- 28iFailure to pay
- 28jOther requirements
- 28kRegulations
- 28lCollection of mining law administration fees
- 29Patents; procurement procedure; filing: application under oath, plat and field notes, notices, and affidavits; posting plat and notice on claim; publication and posting notice in office; certificate; adverse claims; payment per acre; objections; nonresident claimant’s agent for execution of application and affidavits
- 30Adverse claims; oath of claimants; requisites; waiver; stay of land office proceedings; judicial determination of right of possession; successful claimants’ filing of judgment roll, certificate of labor, and description of claim in land office, and acreage and fee payments; issuance of patents for entire or partial claims upon certification of land office proceedings and judgment roll; alienation of patent title
- 31Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
- 32Findings by jury; costs
- 33Existing rights
- 34Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
- 35Placer claims; entry and proceedings for patent under provisions applicable to vein or lode claims; conforming entry to legal subdivisions and surveys; limitation of claims; homestead entry of segregated agricultural land
- 36Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
- 37Proceedings for patent where boundaries contain vein or lode; application; statement including vein or lode; issuance of patent: acreage payments for vein or lode and placer claim; costs of proceedings; knowledge affecting construction of application and scope of patent
- 38Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
- 39Surveyors of mining claims
- 40Verification of affidavits
- 41Intersecting or crossing veins
- 42Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
- 43Conditions of sale by local legislature
- 44, 45Omitted
- 46Additional land districts and officers
- 47Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
- 48Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
- 49Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
- 49aMining laws of United States extended to Alaska; exploration and mining for precious metals; regulations; conflict of laws; permits; dumping tailings; pumping from sea; reservation of roadway; title to land below line of high tide or high-water mark; transfer of title to future State
- 49bMining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
- 49cRecording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
- 49dMiners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
- 49eAnnual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
- 49fFees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
- 50Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
- 51Water users’ vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers’ possession
- 52Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
- 53Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
- 54Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities