The mining law of 1872 : past, politics, and prospects

The mining law of 1872 : past, politics, and prospects / Gordon Morris Bakken.

Bakken traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bakken, Gordon Morris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
Edition:[1st pbk. ed.].
Subjects:
Mining law > United States > History.
Mining law > United States.
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects > United States.
Mineral industries > Environmental aspects
Mining law
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • An act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States
  • Local mining district regulations
  • Congress speaks : the general mining laws
  • Courts speak : mucking out waste and processing words
  • Location, location, location
  • It's off to work we go
  • Spurs, dips, and angles
  • Litigation
  • Tailings, slickens, and slimes
  • Hydraulic mining
  • Modernizing the mining law of 1872
  • Environmental law in the Age of Aquarius
  • A frontal attack on the mining law of 1872
  • The continuing attack on the mining law of 1872
  • Badger State battle for mining.

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