United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 30. MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
Chapter 2. MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL |
§ 21. Mineral lands reserved |
§ 21a. National mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs |
§ 22. Lands open to purchase by citizens |
§ 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes |
§ 24. Proof of citizenship |
§ 25. Affidavit of citizenship |
§ 26. Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment |
§ 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right |
§ 28–1. Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions |
§ 28–2. Definitions |
§ 28a. Omitted |
§ 28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions |
§ 28c. Length and termination of deferment |
§ 28d. Performance of deferred work |
§ 28e. Recordation of deferment |
§ 28f. Fee |
§ 28g. Location fee |
§ 28h. Co-ownership |
§ 28i. Failure to pay |
§ 28j. Other requirements |
§ 28k. Regulations |
§ 28l. Collection of mining law administration fees |
§ 31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim |
§ 32. Findings by jury; costs |
§ 33. Existing rights |
§ 34. Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls |
§ 36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements |
§ 38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent |
§ 39. Surveyors of mining claims |
§ 40. Verification of affidavits |
§ 41. Intersecting or crossing veins |
§ 42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment |
§ 43. Conditions of sale by local legislature |
§ 44, 45. Omitted |
§ 46. Additional land districts and officers |
§ 47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property |
§ 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands |
§ 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands |
§ 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska |
§ 49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims |
§ 49d. Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized |
§ 49e. Annual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury |
§ 49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements |
§ 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands |
§ 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 |
§ 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights |
§ 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title |
§ 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities |