MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

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  2. USC 30
  3. Mineral Lands And Mining
  4. MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL

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Section
21

Mineral lands reserved

Section
21a

National mining and minerals policy; "minerals" defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs

Section
22

Lands open to purchase by citizens

Section
23

Length of claims on veins or lodes

Section
24

Proof of citizenship

Section
25

Affidavit of citizenship

Section
26

Locators' rights of possession and enjoyment

Section
27

Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right

Section
28

Mining 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

Section
28–1

Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions

Section
28–2

Definitions

Section
28a

Omitted

Section
28b

Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions

Section
28c

Length and termination of deferment

Section
28d

Performance of deferred work

Section
28e

Recordation of deferment

Section
28f

Fee

Section
28g

Location fee

Section
28h

Co-ownership

Section
28i

Failure to pay

Section
28j

Other requirements

Section
28k

Regulations

Section
28l

Collection of mining law administration fees

Section
29

Patents; 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

Section
30

Adverse 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

Section
31

Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim

Section
32

Findings by jury; costs

Section
33

Existing rights

Section
34

Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls

Section
35

Placer 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

Section
36

Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements

Section
37

Proceedings 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

Section
38

Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent

Section
39

Surveyors of mining claims

Section
40

Verification of affidavits

Section
41

Intersecting or crossing veins

Section
42

Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment

Section
43

Conditions of sale by local legislature

Sections
44, 45

Omitted

Section
46

Additional land districts and officers

Section
47

Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property

Section
48

Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands

Section
49

Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands

Section
49a

Mining 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

Section
49b

Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska

Section
49c

Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims

Section
49d

Miners' regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized

Section
49e

Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury

Section
49f

Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements

Section
50

Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands

Section
51

Water 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

Section
52

Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights

Section
53

Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title

Section
54

Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities