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30 U.S.C. § 28b — Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
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The performance of not less than $100 worth of labor or the making of improvements aggregating such amount, which labor or improvements are required under the provisions of [section 28 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section28&num=0&edition=prelim) to be made during each year, may be deferred by the Secretary of the Interior as to any mining claim or group of claims in the United States upon the submission by the claimant of evidence satisfactory to the Secretary that such mining claim or group of claims is surrounded by lands over which a right-of-way for the performance of such assessment work has been denied or is in litigation or is in the process of acquisition under State law or that other legal impediments exist which affect the right of the claimant to enter upon the surface of such claim or group of claims or to gain access to the boundaries thereof.
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The performance of not less than $100 worth of labor or the making of improvements aggregating such amount, which labor or improvements are required under the provisions of [section 28 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section28&num=0&edition=prelim) to be made during each year, may be deferred by the Secretary of the Interior as to any mining claim or group of claims in the United States upon the submission by the claimant of evidence satisfactory to the Secretary that such mining claim or group of claims is surrounded by lands over which a right-of-way for the performance of such assessment work has been denied or is in litigation or is in the process of acquisition under State law or that other legal impediments exist which affect the right of the claimant to enter upon the surface of such claim or group of claims or to gain access to the boundaries thereof.
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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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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 28f
1 See References in Text note below.
and professional background of the person or
persons conducting the work. Such surveys,
however, may not be applied as labor for more
than two consecutive years or for more than a
total of five years on any one mining claim, and
each such survey shall be nonrepetitive of any
previous survey on the same claim.
(Pub. L. 85–876, § 1, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1701.)
§ 28–2. Definitions
As used in section 28–1 of this title,
(a) The term ‘‘geological surveys’’ means sur-
veys on the ground for mineral deposits by the
proper application of the principles and tech-
niques of the science of geology as they relate to
the search for and discovery of mineral deposits;
(b) The term ‘‘geochemical surveys’’ means
surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by
the proper application of the principles and
techniques of the science of chemistry as they
relate to the search for and discovery of mineral
deposits;
(c) The term ‘‘geophysical surveys’’ means
surveys on the ground for mineral deposits
through the employment of generally recognized
equipment and methods for measuring physical
differences between rock types or discontinu-
ities in geological formations;
(d) The term ‘‘qualified expert’’ means an indi-
vidual qualified by education or experience to
conduct geological, geochemical or geophysical
surveys, as the case may be.
(Pub. L. 85–876, § 2, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1701.)
§ 28a. Omitted
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Section, act June 29, 1950, ch. 404, 64 Stat. 275, pro-
vided for extension of time of annual assessment work,
on mining claims in the United States, including Alas-
ka, for period commencing July 1, 1949, until 12 o’clock
noon Oct. 1, 1950, and also
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