California Public Resources Code ARTICLE 5 - Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas

• Section 6890.
  (a) Prospecting permits and leases for the extraction and removal of minerals, other than oil and gas or other hydrocarbon substances, from lands, including tide and...
• Section 6890.5.
  Notwithstanding any other law, when lands, other than tide and submerged lands, are owned by another state agency, the commission, when issuing permits and leases...
• Section 6891.
  The commission may issue a prospecting permit, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, for lands which are not known mineral lands, to...
• Section 6892.
  If the applicant erects upon the land for which a permit is sought a monument not less than four feet high, at some conspicuous place...
• Section 6894.
  The applicant shall, within 90 days after receiving a permit, mark each of the corners of the tract described in the permit upon the ground...
• Section 6895.
  Upon establishing to the satisfaction of the commission that commercially valuable deposits of minerals have been discovered within the limits of any permit, the permittee...
• Section 6896.
  Until the permittee applies for a lease as to that portion of the area described in the permit herein provided, he shall pay to the...
• Section 6897.
  (a) All deposits of minerals, other than oil, gas, and geothermal resources in lands belonging to the state, which have been classified by the commission as...
• Section 6898.
  Leases under this article shall be for terms not to exceed 20 years with the preferential right in the lessee to renew the lease for...
• Section 6898.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 6898, any lease in effect on July 1, 1991, of lands, within the bed of Owens Lake for the development of minerals other...
• Section 6899.
  The commission shall prescribe such additional terms, covenants and conditions, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, of permits and leases issued under this article...
• Section 6900.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 6890, the commission may, when it appears to be in the public interest, grant leases for the extraction of minerals...

Last modified: October 22, 2018