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§ 541. —  Entry and location; filing of copy of notice of mining location; report and payment for lignite mined; mineral patents; reservation of minerals to United States.



[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC541]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
  CHAPTER 12A--ENTRY AND LOCATION ON COAL LANDS ON DISCOVERY OF SOURCE 
                                MATERIAL
 
Sec. 541. Entry and location; filing of copy of notice of mining 
        location; report and payment for lignite mined; mineral patents; 
        reservation of minerals to United States
        
    Subject to the conditions and provisions of this chapter and to any 
valid intervening rights acquired under the laws of the United States, 
public lands of the United States classified as or known to be valuable 
for coal subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws and which 
are open to location and entry subject to the conditions and provisions 
of chapter 12 of this title, unless embraced within a coal prospecting 
permit or lease, shall also be open to location and entry under the 
mining laws of the United States upon the discovery of a valuable source 
material occurring within any seam, bed, or deposit of lignite in such 
lands: Provided, That a copy of the notice of any mining location made 
for source material occurring in any such bed, seam, or deposit, shall 
be filed for record in the land office of the Bureau of Land Management 
for the State in which the claim is situated within ninety days after 
the date of its location: Provided further, That the claimant to any 
such mining location shall report annually to the Mining Supervisor of 
the Geological Survey the amount of lignite mined or stripped in the 
recovery of such valuable source material during each calendar year and 
tender payment to him of 10 cents per ton thereon. Any mineral patents 
issued hereunder shall be made subject to the recording and payment 
requirements of this section and shall contain a reservation to the 
United States of all Leasing Act minerals owned by the United States 
other than lignite containing valuable source material and lignite 
necessary to be stripped or mined in the recovery of such material. 
Mining claims located and mineral patents issued under the provisions of 
this chapter shall not include rights to lignite not containing valuable 
source material except to the extent it may be necessary to mine or 
strip such lignite in order to mine the source material and, with 
respect to lode claims, shall not include extralateral rights. For all 
purposes of this chapter ``source material'' and ``lignite'' shall have 
the meanings given in section 541e of this title.

(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 795, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 679.)

                       References in Text

    The mining laws of the United States, referred to in text, are 
classified generally to this title.
    For definitions of ``mineral leasing laws'' and ``Leasing Act 
minerals'', referred to in text, see section 541e of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 541a, 541b, 541c, 541i of 
this title.



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