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Arizona Revised Statutes - Title 27 Minerals, Oil and Gas - Chapter 2 Mining Rights in Land

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  • 27-201 - Location of mining claim upon discovery of mineral in place
    Upon discovery of mineral in place on the public domain of the United States the mineral may be located as a lode mining claim by...
  • 27-202 - Method of locating a lode claim; monument; location notice; amendments
    A. Location of a lode claim shall be made by erecting on the surface on the centerline within the boundaries of the claim a conspicuous...
  • 27-203 - Completing lode, placer or millsite locations; recording location notice; monumenting; map, plat or sketch requirements; abandonment of claims; recorder duties and fees
    A. The locator of a lode, placer or millsite claim shall: 1. Cause to be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the...
  • 27-204 - Monumenting lode claims
    The boundaries of a lode claim shall be monumented by six substantial posts projecting at least four feet above the surface of the ground, or...
  • 27-205 - Locating and monumenting placer and millsite claims
    The locator of a placer mining or millsite claim shall locate the claim in the same manner as prescribed for a lode claim, except that:...
  • 27-206 - Relocation
    The relocation of a claim shall be made in the same manner as other locations. If the original location work of the claim being relocated...
  • 27-208 - Affidavit of performance of annual work; fees
    A. Before December 31 of any year in which the performance of annual labor or making improvements upon a mining claim is required, the person...
  • 27-209 - Sufficiency of description of mining claims
    In all actions, judgments, grants, or conveyances it shall be a sufficient description of a mining claim if the name of the claim, the district,...
  • 27-210 - Existing claims
    A. The owner of an unpatented lode, placer or millsite claim existing on the effective date of this section may on or before October 21,...
  • 27-221 - Notice to delinquent co‑owner to contribute share of annual labor expense
    27-221. Notice to delinquent co-owner to contribute share of annual labor expense A. When a co-owner gives a delinquent co-owner notice in writing or notice...
  • 27-222 - Acknowledgment of contribution by delinquent co‑owner
    27-222. Acknowledgment of contribution by delinquent co-owner A. If the delinquent co-owner, within the time required by the laws of the United States, contributes his...
  • 27-231 - Definition of mineral
    In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, "mineral" means all metallic ore minerals and industrial minerals other than common variety minerals as defined in...
  • 27-233 - Preferred right to renew mineral lease; evaluation of geologic and economic evidence
    A. Upon application to the state land commissioner, not less than thirty nor more than sixty days prior to the expiration of the lease, if...
  • 27-234 - Rent; royalty; appeal; interest; penalty; lien
    A. Before issuing a mineral lease the state land commissioner shall establish the annual land rental for the mineral lease. The rental shall be based...
  • 27-235 - Offering permits and leases at auction; terms of lease; financial security termination
    A. The state land commissioner may offer mineral exploration permits or mineral leases at public auction, after advertising, for state lands on which a mineral...
  • 27-236 - Suspension of royalty rights
    The commissioner may, if he deems it in the interest of the state, subordinate the royalty rights of the state under this article, or suspend...
  • 27-237 - Review by commissioner
    All questions arising between a lessee and the commissioner under this article shall be subject to review as in other cases involving state lands, and...
  • 27-238 - Existing leases
    Every mineral lease issued under this article and article 4 of this chapter which had not expired or been terminated by the department as of...
  • 27-239 - Inspections, investigations and audits
    A. The state land commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative may enter, and the lessee shall maintain access to, the state land held under a...
  • 27-251 - Application for mineral exploration permit
    A. Any natural person over eighteen years of age and any other person qualified to transact business in this state may apply to the state...
  • 27-252 - Terms of mineral exploration permit; definition
    A. Every mineral exploration permit shall be for a term of one year from the date of issuance, subject to renewals as provided in this...
  • 27-253 - Renewal of permit
    The holder of an exploration permit may, prior to expiration of the annual period for which such permit was issued, or prior to expiration of...
  • 27-254 - Mineral lease
    Following discovery of a valuable mineral deposit upon the state land covered by a mineral exploration permit within a rectangular subdivision of twenty acres, more...
  • 27-255 - Bonds
    A. The commissioner, in his discretion, may require the applicant for a mineral exploration permit, prior to issuance of such permit, to file with the...
  • 27-256 - Assignment
    Any mineral exploration permit issued hereunder may be assigned in whole or in part by the permittee, but such assignment shall not become effective unless...
  • 27-271 - Definition of common variety minerals
    For purposes of this article, "common variety minerals": 1. Includes deposits of petrified wood, stone, pumice, pumicite or cinders, decomposed granite, sand, gravel, boulders, common...
  • 27-271.01 - Inventory of trust land containing common mineral products, materials and property
    The department shall maintain an inventory of lands suitable for lease or sale that are within the boundaries identified in section 37-312 and are located...
  • 27-272 - Common variety mineral leases; terms and conditions; rules
    A. The state land department may dispose of common variety minerals at auction and may execute common variety mineral leases offered at auction for the...
  • 27-273 - Performance and reclamation bonds
    A. The commissioner may require the lessee to post a cash deposit, a certificate of deposit, a surety bond or any other form of financial...
  • 27-274 - Trade secrets; confidentiality; definition
    A. For the proper administration of state land, the state land commissioner may require a lessee to submit relevant geologic, engineering and feasibility studies and...
  • 27-276 - Enforcement
    Leases issued and executed under this article are subject to the enforcement provisions prescribed by section 27-239.
  • Last modified: February 19, 2012