1. 1. Oil, Gas and Hydrocarbons shall include: oil, natural gas, and related other hydrocarbons, whether the same be found in solid, semi-solid, liquid, vaporous, or any other form, including tar, bitumen, asphaltum, condensate, and other gases. The oil, gas and hydrocarbon category shall not include coal, oil shale, tar sands, or gilsonite.
2. 2. Mineral-rich Brines shall include: any element in any form contained in aqueous solutions in the subsurface.

3. 3. Industrial and Metallic Minerals:

   1. a. Industrial Minerals shall include: naturally occurring solid deposits of potash, phosphate, magnesium, sodium chloride (salt), lithium, beryllium, fluorspar, clay minerals, building stone and limestone, gypsum, volcanic materials, industrial sands, and others.
   2. b. Metallic Minerals shall include: naturally occurring solid deposits of aluminum, antimony, arsenic, bismuth, chromium, cadmium, cerium, columbium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, germanium, hafnium, iron, indium, lead, mercury, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, platinum group metals, radium, silver, selenium, scandium, rare earth elements, rhenium, tantalum, tin, thorium, tungsten, thallium, tellurium, vanadium, uranium, ytterbium, and zinc.
4. 4. Geothermal Resources shall include: the energy, in whatever form, including pressure, present in, resulting from, created by, or which may be extracted from the natural heat, directly or through a material medium, derived from the natural heat of the earth at temperatures greater than 248F (120C), as defined in the Utah Geothermal Resource Conservation Act or traditional hydrothermal steam power produced on state lands. A separate agreement is required for any non-energy material or element or mineral or product produced from the Geothermal Resource. (R652-20-3400; R655-1).
5. 5. Other Energy Resources shall include: coal, oil shale, tar sands, and gilsonite.
6. 6. Gemstones and Fossils shall include: any mineral specimens valued for their beauty, rarity, and durability or their use in jewelry or art rather than industrial purposes and any fossils valued for their scientific significance, aesthetic appeal, or market desirability.
7. 7. Great Salt Lake Elements and Minerals: a metalliferous mineral, metal, or, chloride compound, potash or salt, mined or extracted from the brine water of the Great Salt Lake or contained within precipitated minerals on the lakebed. Rules for Great Salt Lake Elements and Minerals are prescribed in Rule R652-21, Section R652-20-3100, and Section R652-20-3200.

Applications are made for and the Division shall issue separate mineral leases on the following resources classifications:

KEY: royalties, salt, primary term, administrative procedures

Date of Last Change: January 7, 2026

Notice of Continuation: March 2, 2022

Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 65A-6-2; 65A-6-4(3)