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[CITE: 16USC482h]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                       CHAPTER 2--NATIONAL FORESTS
 
             SUBCHAPTER I--ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 482h. Coronado National Forest; mining rights

    On and after March 15, 1940, mining locations made under the mining 
laws of the United States upon lands within four hundred feet of the 
center line of the Catalina Highway, Coronado National Forest, Arizona, 
which highway begins at the south boundary of said national forest near 
the southeast corner of section 7, township 13 south, range 16 east, 
Gila and Salt River base and meridian, and runs in a general northerly 
direction for a distance of about twenty-five miles to Soldier Camp, 
shall confer on the locator no right to the surface of the land 
described in his location other than the right to occupy and use, under 
the rules and regulations relating to the administration of the Coronado 
National Forest, so much thereof as may be reasonably necessary to carry 
on prospecting and mining, and shall not authorize the taking of any 
resource other than the mineral deposits, or the occupancy of said land 
for any purpose other than prospecting and mining; and each patent 
issued thereafter under the United States mining laws upon a mineral 
location made upon lands within four hundred feet of said center line 
shall convey title only to the mineral deposits within said land and the 
right, subject to rules and regulations relating to the national 
forests, to occupy and use the surface of the land for prospecting and 
mining only: Provided, That valid mining claims within said lands 
existing on March 15, 1940, and thereafter maintained in compliance with 
the laws under which they were initiated and the laws of the State of 
Arizona may be perfected in accordance with the laws under which they 
were initiated.

(Mar. 15, 1940, ch. 59, 54 Stat. 52.)

                       References in Text

    The United States mining laws, referred to in text, are classified 
generally to Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining.
