2013 US Code
Title 30 - Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL (§§ 21 - 54)
Section 27 - Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL Sec. 27 - Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right |
| Contains | section 27 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Short Titles | Tunnel Site Act.</p> |
| Source Credit | R.S. §2323. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 17 Stat. 92 |
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Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface; and locations on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall be invalid; but failure to prosecute the work on the tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.
(R.S. §2323.)
CODIFICATIONR.S. §2323 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, §4, 17 Stat. 92.
SHORT TITLEThis section is popularly known as the Tunnel Site Act.
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