1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 82
  3. CHAPTER 2
  4. Part 3
  5. 82-2-304 Exemption -- discovery pits on federal lands

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 82. MINERALS, OIL, AND GAS

CHAPTER 2. MINING GENERALLY

Part 3. Landowner Notification of Surface Operations

Exemption -- Discovery Pits On Federal Lands

82-2-304. Exemption -- discovery pits on federal lands. Discovery pits which may be required to locate a mining claim on federal lands open to mineral entry, when excavated entirely by hand methods with hand tools, are exempt from the operation of this part.

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 335, L. 1971; R.C.M. 1947, 50-1304.