30 U.S.C. § 524 — Reservation of minerals to United States
submitted 72 years ago by ch. 730 to r/title-30-MINERAL-LANDS-AND-MINING · 249 words · no verdicts yet
Covered mining claims and millsites are subject to a reservation for the United States of certain leasing-law minerals and related access and extraction rights until a patent issues. A patent must preserve that reservation for land meeting one of the listed conditions.
Every mining claim or millsite that was located under United States mining laws and qualifies for sections 521–523, or that is located under those laws after August 13, 1954, is subject, before its patent issues, to a reservation for the United States. The reservation covers all “Leasing Act minerals” (a term this section does not define) and the United States’ right, subject to section 526, and the rights of its lessees, permittees, and licensees, to enter the land; search, drill for, mine, treat, store, transport, and remove those minerals; and use as much of the surface and subsurface as is needed for those purposes. When reasonably necessary, those rights also apply to prospecting for, drilling for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, and removing the minerals on or from other land. A patent for the claim or millsite must include this reservation, but only for covered land that, when the patent issues, is— (a) in a permit or lease issued under the mineral-leasing laws; (b) covered by an application or offer for such a permit or lease; or (c) known to be valuable for minerals that may be disposed of under those laws.
Every mining claim or millsite—
heretofore located under the mining laws of the United States which shall be entitled to benefits under sections 521 to 523 of this title; or
located under the mining laws of the United States after August 13, 1954 shall be subject, prior to issuance of a patent therefor, to a reservation to the United States of all Leasing Act minerals and of the right (as limited in section 526 of this title) of the United States, its lessees, permittees, and licensees to enter upon the land covered by such mining claim or millsite and to prospect for, drill for, mine, treat, store, transport, and remove Leasing Act minerals and to use so much of the surface and subsurface of such mining claim or millsite as may be necessary for such purposes, and whenever reasonably necessary, for the purpose of prospecting for, drilling for, mining, treating, storing, transporting, and removing Leasing Act minerals on and from other lands; and any patent issued for any such mining claim or millsite shall contain such reservation as to, but only as to, such lands covered thereby which at the time of the issuance of such patent were—
(a)included in a permit or lease issued under the mineral leasing laws; or
(b)covered by an application or offer for a permit or lease filed under the mineral leasing laws; or
(c)known to be valuable for minerals subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws.
Source credit: (Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, § 4, 68 Stat. 710.)
- 1954Enacted · Act of Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730 · 68 Stat. 710
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 730 on 1954-08-13.
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