John D. Leshy

The Mining Law

A Study in Perpetual Motion

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Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1987, John D. Leshy presents this scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law as a legal treatise and history of mining in the West from the point of view of mineral exploration and production. . This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and policy makers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781138951877
• ISBN-10: 1138951870
• Artikelnr.: 48240281

Autorenporträt

John D. Leshy

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction 2. Origins 3. The Mining Law: An
Overview 4. Free Access: History of its Decline 5. Success, Abuse, and
Difficulty: The Up and Down Sides of Free Access in Operation 6. Of
Anachronisms, Ambiguities, and Frustration: The Mining Law's Ingenious
Machinery in Operation 7. Evolution of the Law of Discovery 8.The Law of
Discovery Today: Policy and Applications 9. The Problem of Scale: Multiple
Claims and the Mining Law 10. Regulating Mining Law Activities to Protect
the Environment 11. The Special Problem of Wilderness 12. The Split Estate:
Federal Minerals under Privately Owned Surface 13. Administering the Mining
Law: The Role of the Executive and the Courts 14. Reforming the Mining Law:
A Brief History 15. Can Two Million Potential Property Interests on the
Federal Lands Be Wrong? 16. The Leasing Alternative- and Strategic Minerals
17. The Mining Law Today: Prospects for Change; Appendix A: The Mining Law
Excerpted; Appendix B: Outline of Typical Miners' Rules; Notes by Chapter;
Acronyms Used Frequently in the Text; Name Index; Subject Index