United States Code
30 U.S.C. § 611
Common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, or cinders, and petrified wood
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- S 859 Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025 Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
- HR 1865 Mining Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Prevention Act of 2025 Amends · introduced · 119th Congress
- S 1742 Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
- HR 3495 Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act of 2023 Amends · introduced · 118th Congress
- HR 7580 Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act of 2022 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
- S 4083 Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act of 2022 Amends · introduced · 117th Congress
- HR 2579 Hardrock Leasing and Reclamation Act of 2019 Amends · introduced · 116th Congress
- S 1386 Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2019 Amends · introduced · 116th Congress
- HR 5753 Hardrock Leasing and Reclamation Act of 2018 Amends · introduced · 115th Congress
- S 1833 Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2017 Amends · introduced · 115th Congress
- HR 699 Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009 Amends · introduced · 111th Congress
The law today
From the official United States Code, current through Public Law 119-121.
No deposit of common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pumice, pumicite, or cinders and no deposit of petrified wood shall be deemed a valuable mineral deposit within the meaning of the mining laws of the United States so as to give effective validity to any mining claim hereafter located under such mining laws: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall affect the validity of any mining location based upon discovery of some other mineral occurring in or in association with such a deposit. “Common varieties” as used in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title does not include deposits of such materials which are valuable because the deposit has some property giving it distinct and special value and does not include so-called “block pumice” which occurs in nature in pieces having one dimension of two inches or more. “Petrified wood” as used in this subchapter and sections 601 and 603 of this title means agatized, opalized, petrified, or silicified wood, or any material formed by the replacement of wood by silica or other matter.
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