Notes on mineral lands and regulations in general : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on mineral lands and regulations in general : US Code - Notes

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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. 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.
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.
(a) Claim maintenance fee.
(b) Time of payment.
(c) Oil shale claims subject to claim maintenance
fees under Energy Policy Act of 1992.
(d) Waiver.
28g. Location fee.
28h. Co-ownership.
28i. Failure to pay.
28j. Other requirements.
(a) Federal Land Policy and Management Act
requirements.
(b) Omitted.
(c) Fee adjustments.
28k. Regulations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
36. Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer
locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands;
sale of improvements.
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.
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.
(a) Vein or lode and mill site owners eligible.
(b) Placer claim owners eligible.
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.
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.
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.