"Mine" means:
1. An area of land:
(a) Where exploration is conducted to discover or delineate minerals or mineral commodities in any deposit;
(b) Where development is conducted to prepare or open any deposit of minerals or mineral commodities other than solid fuels for extraction; or
(c) Where exploitation or extraction of minerals or mineral commodities other than solid fuels is conducted from any deposit;
2. Private ways and roads appurtenant to such areas;
3. Structures, equipment, machinery, apparatus or other property, upon the surface or underground, used or to facilitate the work of exploring, developing or extracting minerals or mineral commodities other than solid fuels in or from any deposit; or
4. Beneficiation plants, mills, smelters, refineries or other property used or to facilitate the treatment or reduction of any minerals or mineral commodities, whether or not contiguous to an area where exploitation or extraction of minerals or mineral commodities is conducted from any deposit.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 515)