California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 2 - Department of Conservation › Chapter 8 - Mining and Geology › Subchapter 1 - State Mining and Geology Board › Article 8 - Fees Schedule › Section 3695 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall govern the interpretation
						of these regulations:
"Produced Minerals" means minerals extracted at the site
						of the mining operation, and either:
(a) sold, given or otherwise moved off the
					 site of the operation, as defined in the approved reclamation plan,
					 or;
(b) used on-site for production
					 of completed products (e.g. cement, bricks, asphaltic concrete, etc.),
					 Stockpiles of mineral products that remain on the site, as defined in the lead
					 agency approved reclamation plan, are not produced minerals for purposes of
					 these regulations.
"Primary Mineral Commodity Produced" means the produced
						mineral that provides the highest dollar values sales for the operation.
"Board" means State Mining and Geology Board.
As used in Section
						3697 and
						3699"Mining Company" means any
						entity, corporation, partnership, parent or holding company. Any subsidiaries
						of the above are deemed to be part of the mining company.
As used in section
						3699, "Gross Income" means all
						income from whatever source derived as defined by, and determined in accordance
						with, Section
						61 of the Internal Revenue Code,
						Title 26, U.S.C.S.
"Aggregate Products" means decomposed granite, sand and
						gravel, slag, or stone.
"Industrial Minerals" means borates, cinders, clay,
						diatomite, dolomite, gypsum, iron ore, lime, limestone, perlite, pumice, rare
						earth elements, saline compounds, salt, shale, silica, specialty sand,
						abrasives, asbestos, barite, bituminous rock, decorative rock, dimension stone,
						feldspar, fluorite, gemstones, graphite, kyanite, lignite, lithium, magnesite,
						mica, olivine, peat, phosphate, potash, pyrophyllite, quartz crystal, sea
						shells, sericite, sulfur, talc, vermiculite, wollastonite, zeolites, and
						zircon.
"Gold, Silver, and Precious Metals" means gold (lode),
						gold (placer), platinum group metals, and silver.
"Base Metals and Other Metals" means antimony, arsenic,
						chromite, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, pyrite, tin,
						titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zinc.
1.
						Renumbering of former section
						3695 to section
						3696, and new section filed
						4-22-92 as an emergency; operative 5-1-92 (Register 92, No. 19). A Certificate
						of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL 9-18-92 or emergency language will be
						repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Certificate of
						Compliance as to 4-22-92 order transmitted to OAL 8-28-92 and filed 10-13-92
						(Register 92, No. 42).
3. Amendment adding Gross income filed
						4-30-93 as an emergency; operative 4-30-93 (Register 93, No. 18). A Certificate
						of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL 8-30-93 or emergency language will be
						repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Certificate of
						Compliance as to 4-30-93 order transmitted to OAL 8-10-93 and filed 9-22-93
						(Register 93, No. 39).
5. New definitions "Board" and "Mining
						Company" and amendment of NOTE filed 4-28-94 as an emergency; operative 5-1-94
						(Register 94, No. 17). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL
						by 8-29-94 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the
						following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-29-94 order
						transmitted to OAL 8-26-94 and filed 10-6-94 (Register 94, No.
						40).
7. Amendment filed 4-20-95 as an emergency; operative 5-1-95
						(Register 95, No. 16). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL
						by 8-29-95 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the
						following day.
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  2207(d)(1)-(2),
						  Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections
						  2207(d)(1)-(2)
						  and
						  2207(f),
						  Public Resources Code.