US Code Title 30 Chapter 2 Mineral Lands and Regulations in General

§ 21 - Mineral Lands Reserved
§ 21a - National Mining and Minerals Policy; &Quot;minerals" Defined; Execution of Policy Under Other Authorized Programs
§ 22 - Lands Open to Purchase by Citizens
§ 23 - Length of Claims on Veins or Lodes
§ 24 - Proof of Citizenship
§ 25 - Affidavit of Citizenship
§ 26 - Locators' Rights of Possession and Enjoyment
§ 27 - Mining Tunnels; Right to Possession of Veins on Line With; Abandonment of Right
§ 28 - Mining District Regulations by Miners: Location, Recordation, and Amount of Work; Marking of Location on Ground; Records; Annual Labor or Improvements on Claims Pending Issue of Patent; Co-owner's Succession in Interest Upon Delinquency in Contributing Proportion of Expenditures; Tunnel as Lode Expenditure
§ 28-1 - Inclusion of Certain Surveys in Labor Requirements of Mining Claims; Conditions and Restrictions
§ 28-2 - Definitions
§ 28a - Omitted
§ 28b - Annual Assessment Work on Mining Claims; Temporary Deferment; Conditions
§ 28c - Length and Termination of Deferment
§ 28d - Performance of Deferred Work
§ 28e - Recordation of Deferment
§ 28f - Fee
§ 28g - Location Fee
§ 28h - Co-ownership
§ 28i - Failure to Pay
§ 28j - Other Requirements
§ 28k - Regulations
§ 28l - Collection of Mining Law Administration Fees
§ 29 - Patents; Procurement Procedure; Filing: Application Under Oath, Plat and Field Notes, Notices, and Affidavits; Posting Plat and Notice on Claim; Publication and Posting Notice in Office; Certificate; Adverse Claims; Payment Per Acre; Objections; Nonresident Claimant's Agent for Execution of Application and Affidavits
§ 30 - Adverse Claims; Oath of Claimants; Requisites; Waiver; Stay of Land Office Proceedings; Judicial Determination of Right of Possession; Successful Claimants' Filing of Judgment Roll, Certificate of Labor, and Description of Claim in Land Office, and Acreage and Fee Payments; Issuance of Patents for Entire or Partial Claims Upon Certification of Land Office Proceedings and Judgment Roll; Alienation of Patent Title
§ 31 - Oath: Agent or Attorney in Fact, Beyond District of Claim
§ 32 - Findings by Jury; Costs
§ 33 - Existing Rights
§ 34 - Description of Vein Claims on Surveyed and Unsurveyed Lands; Monuments on Ground to Govern Conflicting Calls
§ 35 - Placer Claims; Entry and Proceedings for Patent Under Provisions Applicable to Vein or Lode Claims; Conforming Entry to Legal Subdivisions and Surveys; Limitation of Claims; Homestead Entry of Segregated Agricultural Land
§ 36 - Subdivisions of 10-acre Tracts; Maximum of Placer Locations; Homestead Claims of Agricultural Lands; Sale of Improvements
§ 37 - Proceedings for Patent Where Boundaries Contain Vein or Lode; Application; Statement Including Vein or Lode; Issuance of Patent: Acreage Payments for Vein or Lode and Placer Claim; Costs of Proceedings; Knowledge Affecting Construction of Application and Scope of Patent
§ 38 - Evidence of Possession and Work to Establish Right to Patent
§ 39 - Surveyors of Mining Claims
§ 40 - Verification of Affidavits
§ 41 - Intersecting or Crossing Veins
§ 42 - Patents for Nonmineral Lands: Application, Survey, Notice, Acreage Limitation, Payment
§ 43 - Conditions of Sale by Local Legislature
§§ 44-45 - Omitted
§ 46 - Additional Land Districts and Officers
§ 47 - Impairment of Rights or Interests in Certain Mining Property
§ 48 - Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; Sale and Disposal as Public Lands
§ 49 - Lands in Missouri and Kansas; Disposal as Agricultural Lands
§ 49a - Mining Laws of United States Extended to Alaska; Exploration and Mining for Precious Metals; Regulations; Conflict of Laws; Permits; Dumping Tailings; Pumping From Sea; Reservation of Roadway; Title to Land Below Line of High Tide or High-water Mark; Transfer of Title to Future State
§ 49b - Mining Laws Relating to Placer Claims Extended to Alaska
§ 49c - Recording Notices of Location of Alaskan Mining Claims
§ 49d - Miners' Regulations for Recording Notices in Alaska; Certain Records Legalized
§ 49e - Annual Labor or Improvements on Alaskan Mining Claims; Affidavits; Burden of Proof; Forfeitures; Location Anew of Claims; Perjury
§ 49f - Fees of Recorders in Alaska for Filing Proofs of Work and Improvements
§ 50 - Grants to States or Corporations Not to Include Mineral Lands
§ 51 - Water Users' Vested and Accrued Rights; Enumeration of Uses; Protection of Interest; Rights-of-way for Canals and Ditches; Liability for Injury or Damage to Settlers' Possession
§ 52 - Patents or Homesteads Subject to Vested and Accrued Water Rights
§ 53 - Possessory Actions for Recovery of Mining Titles or for Damages to Such Title
§ 54 - Liability for Damages to Stock Raising and Homestead Entries by Mining Activities

Last modified: October 26, 2015