Title 30, Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
54 sections
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
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
Section 44, 45
Omitted
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