MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Mineral lands reserved
National mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs
Lands open to purchase by citizens
Length of claims on veins or lodes
Proof of citizenship
Affidavit of citizenship
Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
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
Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions
Definitions
Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
Length and termination of deferment
Performance of deferred work
Recordation of deferment
Fee
Location fee
Co-ownership
Failure to pay
Other requirements
Regulations
Collection of mining law administration fees
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
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
Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
Findings by jury; costs
Existing rights
Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls
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
Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements
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
Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
Surveyors of mining claims
Verification of affidavits
Intersecting or crossing veins
Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
Conditions of sale by local legislature
Additional land districts and officers
Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
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
Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury
Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
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
Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities