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30 U.S.C. § 541a — Claims located prior to May 25, 1955; extralateral rights; amended notice of mining location
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Any mining claim located in a manner prescribed by the mining laws of the United States upon lands of the character described in [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), prior to May 25, 1955, if based upon a discovery of valuable source material contained in lignite shall be effective to the same extent as if such lands at the time of location, and at all times thereafter, had not been classified as or known to be valuable for coal subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws, subject, however, to the provisions of [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided, That no extralateral rights shall attach to any mining location validated under this section: And provided further, That the locator or locators of such a mining claim shall, not later than one hundred and eighty days from and after August 11, 1955, post on the claim and file for record in the office where the notice or certificate of location is of record, an amended notice of the mining location stating that such amended notice is filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof; and that a copy of said amended notice is, within the said one-hundred-and-eighty-day period, filed in the land office of the Bureau of Land Management for the State in which the mining location is situated, and the mining locator thereafter complies with the requirements of this chapter.
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Any mining claim located in a manner prescribed by the mining laws of the United States upon lands of the character described in [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), prior to May 25, 1955, if based upon a discovery of valuable source material contained in lignite shall be effective to the same extent as if such lands at the time of location, and at all times thereafter, had not been classified as or known to be valuable for coal subject to disposition under the mineral leasing laws, subject, however, to the provisions of [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim): Provided, That no extralateral rights shall attach to any mining location validated under this section: And provided further, That the locator or locators of such a mining claim shall, not later than one hundred and eighty days from and after August 11, 1955, post on the claim and file for record in the office where the notice or certificate of location is of record, an amended notice of the mining location stating that such amended notice is filed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and for the purpose of obtaining the benefits thereof; and that a copy of said amended notice is, within the said one-hundred-and-eighty-day period, filed in the land office of the Bureau of Land Management for the State in which the mining location is situated, and the mining locator thereafter complies with the requirements of this chapter.
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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
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The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the State or Territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. All records of mining claims made after May 10, 1872, shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the 10th day of May 1872, that is granted a waiver under [section 28f of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section28f&num=0&edition=prelim), and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than $100 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the 10th day of May 1872, $10 worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made each year, for each one hundred feet in length along the vein until a patent has been issued therefor; but where such claims are held in common, such expenditure may be made upon any one claim; and upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location. Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proporti
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Subject to the provisos of [section 541a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541a&num=0&edition=prelim), any mining location made under the mining laws of the United States, including chapter 12 of this title, on lands of the character described in [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), except locations made for lands within the exterior boundaries of a prior coal prospecting permit or lease, if based upon a discovery of valuable source material in deposits other than deposits of Leasing Act minerals, shall include the right to mine, remove, and dispose of lignite containing valuable source material and lignite necessary to be stripped or mined in the recovery of source material contained in lignite, subject to the reporting and payment requirements of [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), and subject to the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [[42 U.S.C. 2011](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2011&num=0&edition=prelim) et. seq.], and upon filing in the land office designated in [section 541 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section541&num=0&edition=prelim), an adequate description of his claim or claims containing such lignite: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights acquired by virtue of a mining claim heretofore or hereafter located, under the 1872 Mining Act, as amended, or to impose any additional obligation with respect to the mining and removal of source material which does not o
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Page 108
TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 531
et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For
further details, see Codification note set out under sec-
tions 1801 to 1819 of Title 42 and Short Title note set
out under section 2011 of Title 42. For complete classi-
fication of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Section 5(b)(1) of the Atomic Energy Act, as amend-
ed, referred to in text, was formerly classified to sec-
tion 1805(b)(1) of Title 42 and defined ‘‘source material’’.
The term is defined in section 11(z) of the Atomic En-
ergy Act of 1954, as amended, which is classified to sec-
tion 2014(z) of Title 42.
AMENDMENTS
2005—Pub. L. 109–58 amended directory language of
Pub. L. 91–581, § 26. See 1970 Amendment note below.
1970—Pub. L. 91–581, § 26, as amended by Pub. L.
109–58, redefined ‘‘mineral leasing laws’’ to exclude ‘‘the
Act of October 20, 1914’’ and to include ‘‘Geothermal
Steam Act of 1970’’ and ‘‘Leasing Act minerals’’ to in-
clude ‘‘all geothermal steam and associated geothermal
resources which, upon the effective date of the Geo-
thermal Steam Act of 1970, are provided in that Act to
be disposed of thereunder’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions
transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of Title 42, The
Public Health and Welfare. See, also, Transfer of Func-
tions notes set out under those sections.
§ 531. Approval of United States officials
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to
waive, amend, or repeal the requirement of any
provision of any law for approval of any official
of the United States whose approval prior to
prospecting, exploring, or mining would be re-
quired.
(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, § 12, 68 Stat. 717.)
CHAPTER 12A—ENTRY AND
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