Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
21Mineral lands reserved21aNational mining and minerals policy; “minerals” defined; execution of policy under other authorized programs22Lands open to purchase by citizens23Length of claims on veins or lodes24Proof of citizenship25Affidavit of citizenship26Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment27Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right28Mining 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 expenditure28–1Inclusion of certain surveys in labor requirements of mining claims; conditions and restrictions28–2Definitions28aOmitted28bAnnual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions28cLength and termination of deferment28dPerformance of deferred work28eRecordation of deferment28fFee28gLocation fee28hCo-ownership28iFailure to pay28jOther requirements28kRegulations28lCollection of mining law administration fees29Patents; 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 affidavits30Adverse 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 title31Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim32Findings by jury; costs33Existing rights34Description of vein claims on surveyed and unsurveyed lands; monuments on ground to govern conflicting calls35Placer 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 land36Subdivisions of 10-acre tracts; maximum of placer locations; homestead claims of agricultural lands; sale of improvements37Proceedings 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 patent38Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent39Surveyors of mining claims40Verification of affidavits41Intersecting or crossing veins42Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment43Conditions of sale by local legislature44, 45Omitted46Additional land districts and officers47Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property48Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands49Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands49aMining 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 State49bMining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska49cRecording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims49dMiners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized49eAnnual labor or improvements on Alaskan mining claims; affidavits; burden of proof; forfeitures; location anew of claims; perjury49fFees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements50Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands51Water 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’ possession52Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights53Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title54Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities