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which such person asserts rights in Leasing Act

minerals:

(1) the date of location;

(2) the book and page of the recordation of

the notice or certificate of location; and

(3) the section or sections of the public land

surveys which embrace such mining claim; or

if such lands are unsurveyed, either the section or sections which would probably embrace such mining claim when the public land

surveys are extended to such lands or a tie by

courses and distances to an approved United

States mineral monument.

Other than in respect to the requirements of

subsection (a) of this section as to personal delivery or mailing of copies of notices and in respect to the provisions of subsection (e) of this

section, no such request for copies of published

notices and no statement or allegation in such

request and no recordation thereof shall affect

title to any mining claim or to any land or be

deemed to constitute constructive notice to any

person that the person requesting copies has, or

claims, any right, title, or interest in or under

any mining claim referred to in such request.

(e) Failure to deliver or mail copy of notice

If any applicant, offeror, permittee, or lessee

shall fail to comply with the requirements of

subsection (a) of this section as to the personal

delivery or mailing of a copy of notice to any

person, the publication of such notice shall be

deemed wholly ineffectual as to that person or

as to the rights asserted by that person and the

failure of that person to file a verified statement, as provided in such notice, shall in no

manner affect, diminish, prejudice or bar any

rights of that person.

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, §7, 68 Stat. 711; Pub. L.

86–507, §1(25), June 11, 1960, 74 Stat. 201.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

For definitions of ‘‘mineral leasing laws’’, referred to

in first undesignated par. of subsec. (a), and ‘‘Leasing

Act minerals’’, referred to in fifth undesignated par. of

subsec. (a) and subsecs. (b) to (d), see section 530 of this

title.

AMENDMENTS

1960—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86–507 inserted ‘‘or by certified mail’’ after ‘‘registered mail’’ in two places in

last paragraph.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 226 of this title.

§ 528. Waiver and relinquishment of mineral

rights

The owner or owners of any mining claim

heretofore located may, at any time prior to issuance of patent therefor, waive and relinquish

all rights thereunder to Leasing Act minerals.

The execution and acknowledgment of such a

waiver and relinquishment by such owner or

owners and the recordation thereof in the office

where the notice or certificate of location of

such mining claim is of record shall render such

mining claim thereafter subject to the reservation referred to in section 524 of this title and

any patent issued therefor shall contain such a

reservation, but no such waiver or relinquishment shall be deemed in any manner to constitute any concession as to the date of priority

of rights under said mining claim or as to the

validity thereof.

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, §8, 68 Stat. 715.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

For definition of ‘‘Leasing Act minerals’’, referred to

in text, see section 530 of this title.

§ 529. Helium lands subject to entry

Lands withdrawn from the public domain

which are within (a) Helium Reserve Numbered

1, pursuant to Executive orders of March 21,

1924, and January 28, 1926, and (b) Helium Reserve Numbered 2 pursuant to Executive Order

6184 of June 26, 1933, shall be subject to entry

and location under the mining laws of the

United States, and to permit and lease under the

mineral leasing laws, upon determination by the

Secretary of the Interior, based upon available

geologic and other information, that there is no

reasonable probability that operations pursuant

to entry or location of the particular lands

under the mining laws, or pursuant to a permit

or lease of the particular lands under the Mineral Leasing Act [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.], will result in the extraction or cause loss or waste of

the helium-bearing gas in the lands of such reserves: Provided, That the lands shall not become subject to entry, location, permit or lease

until such time as the Secretary designates in

an order published in the Federal Register: And

provided further, That the Secretary may at any

time as a condition to continued mineral operations require the entryman, locator, permittee

or lessee to take such measures either above or

below the surface of the lands as the Secretary

deems necessary to prevent loss or waste of the

helium-bearing gas.

(Aug. 13, 1954, ch. 730, §9, 68 Stat. 715.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

The mining laws of the United States, referred to in

text, are classified generally to this title.

For definition of ‘‘mineral leasing laws’’, referred to

in text, see section 530 of this title.

The Mineral Leasing Act, referred to in text, is act

Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, as amended, which is

classified generally to chapter 3A (§181 et seq.) of this

title. For complete classification of this Act to the

Code, see Short Title note set out under section 181 of

this title and Tables.

CROSS REFERENCES

Cooperative Forest Service research funds excepted,

see section 581i–1 of Title 16, Conservation.

§ 530. Definitions

As used in this chapter ‘‘mineral leasing laws’’

shall mean the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat.

437) [30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.]; the Act of April 17,

1926 (44 Stat. 301) [30 U.S.C. 271 et seq.]; the Act

of February 7, 1927 (44 Stat. 1057) [30 U.S.C. 281 et

seq.]; Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 [30 U.S.C.

1001 et seq.]; and all Acts heretofore or hereafter

enacted which are amendatory of or supplementary to any of the foregoing Acts; ‘‘Leasing

Act minerals’’ shall mean all minerals which,

upon August 13, 1954, are provided in the mineral

leasing laws to be disposed of thereunder and all