[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 43CFR3500]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 3500_LEASING OF SOLID MINERALS OTHER THAN COAL AND OIL SHALE

--Table of Contents

 

  Subpart 3501_Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale_

                                 General

 

Sec.  3501.10  What types of mineral use authorizations can I get under these rules?



    BLM issues the mineral use authorizations listed below to qualified 

individuals. Some authorizations are not available for certain 

commodities. See the subparts referenced in each subsection for more 

information.

    (a) ``Prospecting permits'' let you explore for leasable mineral 

deposits on lands where BLM has determined that prospecting is needed to 

determine the existence of a valuable deposit. See subpart 3505 of this 

part.

    (b) ``Exploration licenses'' let you explore in areas with known 

deposits of a leasable mineral to obtain data. With an exploration 

license, you do not get any preference or other right to a lease. See 

subpart 3506 of this part.

    (c) ``Preference right leases'' are issued to holders of prospecting 

permits who, during the term of the permit, demonstrate the discovery of 

a valuable deposit of the leasable mineral for which BLM issued the 

permit. There are other requirements. The requirements for mine plans 

are in subpart 3592 of part 3590 of this chapter. See subpart 3507 of 

this part.

    (d) ``Competitive leases'' are issued by competitive bidding for 

known deposits of a leasable mineral. See subpart 3508 of this part.

    (e) ``Fringe acreage leases'' are issued noncompetitively for known 

deposits of leasable minerals on Federal lands adjacent to existing 

deposits, when the Federal deposits can be mined only as part of an 

adjacent operation. See subpart 3510 of this part.

    (f) ``Lease modifications'' add acreage containing known deposits of 

a leasable mineral to an adjacent Federal lease of the same mineral, 

provided the deposits can be mined only as part of the larger mining 

operation. See subpart 3510 of this part.



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    (g) ``Use permits'' are available to holders of phosphate and sodium 

leases so that they may use the surface of unappropriated and unentered 

public lands for the proper extraction, treatment, or removal of the 

phosphate or sodium deposits. See subpart 3516 of this part.