30 U.S.C. § 291 : US Code - Section 291: Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims

Search 30 U.S.C. § 291 : US Code - Section 291: Lease of gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits on lands title to which confirmed by Court of Private Land Claims

All gold, silver, or quicksilver deposits, or mines or minerals
of the same on lands embraced within any land claim confirmed or
hereafter confirmed by decree of the Court of Private Land Claims,
and which did not convey the mineral rights to the grantee by the
terms of the grant, and to which such grantee has not become
otherwise entitled in law or in equity, may be leased by the
Secretary of the Interior to the grantee, or to those claiming
through or under him, for a period of twenty years, with the
preferential right in the lessee to renew the same for successive
periods of ten years, upon such reasonable terms and conditions as
may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, unless
otherwise provided by law at the time of the expiration of such
periods.