[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.  3501.5  What terms do I need to know to understand this part?



    You need to know the following terms, which are used frequently in 

this part:

    Acquired lands means lands or interests in lands, including mineral 

estates, which the United States obtained through purchase, gift, or 

condemnation. It includes all lands BLM administers for hardrock mineral 

leasing other than public domain lands.

    Chiefly valuable, for the purposes of this part, means the land is 

more valuable for the development of sodium, sulphur or potassium than 

for any non-mineral use of the land.

    Hardrock minerals include base metals, precious metals, industrial 

minerals, and precious or semi-precious gemstones. Hardrock minerals do 

not include coal, oil shale, phosphate, sodium, potassium, or gilsonite 

deposits. Also, hardrock minerals do not include commodities the 

government sells such as common varieties of sand, gravel, stone, pumice 

or cinder. The term hardrock minerals as used here includes mineral 

deposits that are found in sedimentary and other rocks.

    Leasable minerals, for purposes of this part, means the chlorides, 

sulfates, carbonates, borates, silicates or nitrates of potassium or 

sodium and related products; sulphur on public lands in the States of 

Louisiana and New Mexico and on all acquired lands; phosphate, including 

associated and related minerals; asphalt in certain lands in Oklahoma; 

and gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons).

    MMS means the Minerals Management Service.

    Permit means prospecting permit, unless otherwise specified.

    Valuable deposit, for the purposes of this part, means an occurrence 

of minerals of such character that a person of ordinary prudence would 

be justified in the further expenditure of his or her labor and means, 

with a reasonable prospect of success in developing a profitable mine.