30 U.S.C. § 541 : US Code - Section 541: Entry and location; filing of copy of notice of mining location; report and payment for lignite mined; mineral patents; reservation of minerals to United States

Search 30 U.S.C. § 541 : US Code - Section 541: Entry and location; filing of copy of notice of mining location; report and payment for lignite mined; mineral patents; reservation of minerals to United States

Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to
any valid intervening rights acquired under the laws of the United
States, public lands of the United States classified as or known to
be valuable for coal subject to disposition under the mineral
leasing laws and which are open to location and entry subject to
the conditions and provisions of chapter 12 of this title, unless
embraced within a coal prospecting permit or lease, shall also be
open to location and entry under the mining laws of the United
States upon the discovery of a valuable source material occurring
within any seam, bed, or deposit of lignite in such lands:
Provided, That a copy of the notice of any mining location made for
source material occurring in any such bed, seam, or deposit, shall
be filed for record in the land office of the Bureau of Land
Management for the State in which the claim is situated within
ninety days after the date of its location: Provided further, That
the claimant to any such mining location shall report annually to
the Mining Supervisor of the Geological Survey the amount of
lignite mined or stripped in the recovery of such valuable source
material during each calendar year and tender payment to him of 10
cents per ton thereon. Any mineral patents issued hereunder shall
be made subject to the recording and payment requirements of this
section and shall contain a reservation to the United States of all
Leasing Act minerals owned by the United States other than lignite
containing valuable source material and lignite necessary to be
stripped or mined in the recovery of such material. Mining claims
located and mineral patents issued under the provisions of this
chapter shall not include rights to lignite not containing valuable
source material except to the extent it may be necessary to mine or
strip such lignite in order to mine the source material and, with
respect to lode claims, shall not include extralateral rights. For
all purposes of this chapter "source material" and "lignite" shall
have the meanings given in section 541e of this title.