30 U.S.C. § 502 — Reservation of minerals to the United States; rights of entry, disposition and removal

submitted 73 years ago by ch. 405 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 143 words · no verdicts yet

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Mining claims recognized under section 501 don't include certain minerals — the government keeps ownership of anything covered by the mineral leasing laws as of August 12, 1953. The government and its lessees, permittees, and licensees also keep the right to enter the claim to find, mine, store, and remove those reserved minerals.

Any mining claim that is given legal effect under section 501 of this title is still subject to a reservation: the United States keeps ownership of all minerals that, as of August 12, 1953, the mineral leasing laws say must be disposed of under those laws. The United States, and anyone it leases, permits, or licenses, also keeps the right to enter the land covered by the mining claim to search for, mine, process, store, and remove those reserved minerals — using as much of the surface and subsurface of the claim as necessary — and to enter that land whenever reasonably necessary to reach and work other government land nearby. Every patent issued for such a mining claim must contain this reservation.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Any mining claim given force and effect as provided in section 501 of this title shall be subject to the reservation to the United States of all minerals which, upon August 12, 1953, are provided in the mineral leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder, and the right of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees, to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim to prospect for, mine, treat, store, and remove such minerals, and to use so much of the surface and subsurface of such mining claim as may be necessary for such purposes, and to enter upon such land whenever reasonably necessary for the purpose of prospecting for, mining, treating, storing, and removing such minerals on and from other lands of the United States; and any patent issued for any such mining claim shall contain such reservation.

Source credit: (Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405, § 2, 67 Stat. 539.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1953Enacted · Act of Aug. 12, 1953, ch. 405 · 67 Stat. 539

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