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LegalText 30 U.S.C. § 72 Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation us united_states_code code_section 30 MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 3 LANDS CONTAINING COAL, OIL, GAS, SALTS, ASPHALTIC MATERIALS, SODIUM, SULPHUR, AND BUILDING STONE 72 30 U.S.C. § 72 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc30@119-100.zip /us/usc/t30/s72 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-30/usc30.xml 200ba956b7c42b740f3d6e62065683064f38373c8d24c0e850cd5a704a01a2ee 355f8eb5c6ad5372de4a8e665d9ed90202d53d2aac19ac001d43948af4a4dd2f ebf3c1588149eac5b2a2d22573ce38a5059083e0a5370fe22771d071d1f6aade 2026-07-04 official
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30 U.S.C. § 72 - Preference right of coal mine entry; acreage limitation

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Any person or association of persons severally qualified, as provided in section 71 of this title, who have opened and improved, or shall open and improve, any coal mine or mines upon the public lands, and shall be in actual possession of the same, shall be entitled to a preference right of entry, under section 71 of this title, of the mines so opened and improved: Provided, That when any association of not less than four persons, severally qualified as provided in section 71 of this title, shall have expended not less than $5,000 in working and improving any such mine or mines, such association may enter not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, including such mining improvements.

(R.S. § 2348.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 2348 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 279, § 2, 17 Stat. 607.

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Indian Lands ExceptedSee note set out under section 71 of this title.