Alaska Statutes Title 38, Chapter 38.05, Article 08 - Mining Rights

• Sec. 38.05.185 Generally.
  (a) The acquisition and continuance of rights in and to deposits on state land of minerals, which on January 3, 1959, were subject to...
• Sec. 38.05.190 Qualifications.
  (a) The right to acquire exploration and mining rights under AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 may be acquired or held only by(1) citizens of the...
• Sec. 38.05.195 Mining Claims.
  (a) Rights to deposits of minerals subject to AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 in or on state land that is open to claim staking may...
• Sec. 38.05.200 Changes in Locations and Amended Notices.
  Notices may be amended at any time and monuments changed to correspond with the amended location but a change may not be made that...
• Sec. 38.05.205 Mining Leasing.
  (a) Prior discovery, location, and recording shall initiate prior rights to mineral deposits subject to AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 in or on state land,...
• Sec. 38.05.207 Production License. [Repealed, Sec. 19 Ch 56 Sla 1997].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 38.05.210 Annual Labor.
  (a) Labor shall be performed or improvements made annually on or for the benefit or development of each mining claim, leasehold location, and mining...
• Sec. 38.05.211 Annual Rental.
  (a) The holder of each mining claim, leasehold location, prospecting site, and mining lease, including a mining lease under AS 38.05.250, shall pay, in...
• Sec. 38.05.212 Production Royalty.
  (a) In exchange for and to preserve the right to extract and possess the minerals produced, the holder of a mining claim, leasehold location,...
• Sec. 38.05.215 Notice to Co-Owners to Contribute to Cost of Annual Labor or Improvements and Forfeiture for Failure to Contribute.
  If one of several co-owners fails to contribute the proportion of the expenditures required for annual labor from the co-owner, the co-owners who have...
• Sec. 38.05.220 Recording the Notice to Contribute and Affidavits.
  (a) Within 120 days after personal service, or within 120 days after the completion of publication of the notice provided for in AS 38.05.215,...
• Sec. 38.05.225 Lienholder May Perform the Annual Labor.
  A person who holds a claim to or lien upon an unpatented mining claim under a certificate of sale, mortgage, attachment, levy, judgment, or...
• Sec. 38.05.230 Lien for Performance of Annual Labor.
  (a) The person performing or causing to be performed annual labor upon an unpatented mining claim as provided in AS 38.05.225 shall have a...
• Sec. 38.05.235 Lien for Annual Labor is Independent of Other Liens.
  The lien given for the performance of annual labor by AS 38.05.230, if the work is done in good faith and necessarily for the...
• Sec. 38.05.245 Prospecting Sites.
  (a) Before the discovery of valuable minerals, an exclusive right to prospect by geophysical, geochemical, and similar methods may be acquired by establishing a...
• Sec. 38.05.250 Prospecting Permits and Leases on Tide and Submerged Land.
  (a) The exclusive right to prospect for deposits of minerals subject to AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 in or on tide and submerged state land...
• Sec. 38.05.252 Extralateral Rights Under Shore, Tide, and Submerged Land.
  (a) Extralateral rights under shoreland, tideland, and submerged land are confirmed and granted to an owner of a lode mining claim located before January...
• Sec. 38.05.255 Surface Use of Land or Water.
  (a) Surface uses of land or water included within a mining property by the owners, lessees, or operators shall be limited to those necessary...
• Sec. 38.05.260 Water Rights Where Claim Includes Both Banks of a Stream. [Repealed, Sec. 2 Ch 50 Sla 1966. for Current Law See As 46.15].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 38.05.265 Abandonment.
  (a) Failure to properly record a certificate of location or a statement of annual labor, pay any required annual rental, or pay any required...
• Sec. 38.05.270 Transfers.
  The sale, lease, or other transfer of mining property or interest in mining property shall be recorded or shall be approved by the director...
• Sec. 38.05.275 Recognition of Locations.
  (a) Mining locations made on state land, including shoreland, tideland, or submerged land, or state selected land, under AS 38.05.185 - 38.05.275 or in...
• Sec. 38.05.280 [Renumbered As As 38.05.242 ].
  
  Repealed or Renumbered

Last modified: November 15, 2016