...resources of the United States. The act provides that all valuable mineral deposits in Federal lands "* * * are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase * * * by citizens of the United States * * * under regulations prescribed by law." In order to encourage...

...resources of the United States. The act provides that all valuable mineral deposits in Federal lands "* * * are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase * * * by citizens of the United States * * * under regulations prescribed by law." In order to encourage...

...and practices.52 The Act declares that: All valuable mineral deposits in [Federal] lands . . . shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and...in which they are found to occupation and purchase . . . under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in...

...valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and...occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and...

...all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration...occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and...

...Mining Law of 1872 states that all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States are free and open to exploration and purchase and the...which they are found, to occupation and purchase. In summary, the law allows these valuable minerals and the lands in which they are found to be acquired...

...clarion call: "[A]ll valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States . . . shall be free and open to exploration and purchase, and...the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase."3 The notion of free access embodied in the Mining Law embraced three ideas. First, the access...

...it certainly was implicit. Section 1 of the 1872 Act provides that all valuable mineral deposits are free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which such deposits are found to occupation and purchase. It suggests that purchase, or patent, was contemplated...

...all valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and nnsnrveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration...occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and...

...All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration...occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and...