[national forest lands] found better adapted for mining or for agricultural purposes than for forest usage, may be restored to the public domain."(94) Once the
mining claim became part of the public domain through this section, the claim was entitled to all the mining rights granted by the 1872 Mining Law.
"The Senate's bill, approved in May 1993, provides a 2% net royalty, allows patenting of
mining claims for fair market value of the surface, leaves current reclamation procedures in place and retains the existing system for filing and maintaining claims.
For the hard rock miner seeking to develop a
mining claim, the government's policy regarding surface use and its philosophy regarding retention of surface environmental and aesthetic benefits are critical to the miner's rights.
At RHEOX, manager Mike McGath said 74
mining claims had been applied for before the DOI moratorium on processing.
Numerous agencies are involved in generating and distributing reports, guidelines, and informational fact sheets as well as overseeing land use,
mining claims, and permitting of exploration activities.
435 (1997)] is a "takings" action for an unpatented
mining claim in which Cook sought compensation from the United States under the Constitution's Fifth Amendment prohibition against a government taking of private property for public use without paying the owner just compensation.
The company was able to secure and augment additional claim blocks to add to the original 25 claims defined and earlier announced under the Option and
Mining Claim Acquisition agreement dated December 22, 2010.
has announced it has entered into a
mining claim acquisition deal with Gary J.
Bureau of Land Management to run a 160-acre placer gold
mining claim around 50 miles north of Mojave.
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mining claim registration would benefit the province's mining sector by encouraging prospecting, claim registration and exploration, key to the future development of new mines.
The Abitibi Gold Extension III Property includes one
mining claim located in the Munro Township in the Timmins-Porcupine Mining Camp.
Last fall, he was a vocal critic of the Ontario government's study of electronic
mining claim staking, fearing it would be the demise of the province's prospecting and development industry.
