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[CITE: 30USC27]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
           CHAPTER 2--MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
 
Sec. 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line 
        with; abandonment of right
        
    Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for 
the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right 
of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the 
face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, 
discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the 
surface; and locations on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not 
appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement 
of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable 
diligence, shall be invalid; but failure to prosecute the work on the 
tunnel for six months shall be considered as an abandonment of the right 
to all undiscovered veins on the line of such tunnel.

(R.S. Sec. 2323.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2323 derived from act May 10, 1872, ch. 152, Sec. 4, 17 
Stat. 92.


                               Short Title

    This section is popularly known as the Tunnel Site Act.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 
42, 46, 47, 48, 49, 102, 541b of this title; title 16 section 460mm-1; 
title 25 section 640d-10; title 43 sections 1712, 1714, 1732.
