ARTICLE 5. Minerals Other Than Oil and Gas

Article 5 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.

§§ 6890–6900 · 10 sections

• § 6890 (a) Prospecting permits and leases for the extraction and removal of minerals, other than oil and gas or other hydrocarbon substances, from lands, consistent…
• § 6890.5 Notwithstanding any other law, when lands, other than tide and submerged lands, are owned by another state agency, the commission, when issuing permits and…
• § 6891 The commission may issue a prospecting permit, under such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, for lands which are not known mineral lands, to any…
• § 6895 (a) Upon establishing to the satisfaction of the commission that commercially valuable deposits of minerals have been discovered within the limits of any…
• § 6896 Until the permittee applies for a lease as to that portion of the area described in the permit herein provided, the permittee shall pay to the state 20 percent…
• § 6897 (a) All deposits of minerals, other than oil, gas, and geothermal resources in lands belonging to the state, which have been classified by the commission as…
• § 6898 Leases under this article shall be for terms not to exceed 20 years.
• § 6898.5 Notwithstanding Section 6898, any lease in effect on July 1, 1991, of lands, within the bed of Owens Lake for the development of minerals other than oil and…
• § 6899 The commission shall prescribe additional terms and conditions, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, of permits and leases issued under this article…
• § 6900 (a) Notwithstanding Section 6890, the commission or a local trustee of granted public trust lands shall not grant leases or issue permits for the extraction or…