The term “labor”, as used in the third sentence of , shall include, without being limited to, geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys conducted by qualified experts and verified by a detailed report filed in the county office in which the claim is located which sets forth fully (a) the location of the work performed in relation to the point of discovery and boundaries of the claim, (b) the nature, extent, and cost thereof, (c) the basic findings therefrom, and (d) the name, address, and professional background of the person or persons conducting the work. Such surveys, however, may not be applied as labor for more than two consecutive years or for more than a total of five years on any one mining claim, and each such survey shall be nonrepetitive of any previous survey on the same claim.
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Title 30— MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2— MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
§ 22. Lands open to purchase by citizens
§ 23. Length of claims on veins or lodes
§ 25. Affidavit of citizenship
§ 26. Locators’ rights of possession and enjoyment
§ 27. Mining tunnels; right to possession of veins on line with; abandonment of right
§ 28b. Annual assessment work on mining claims; temporary deferment; conditions
§ 28c. Length and termination of deferment
§ 28d. Performance of deferred work
§ 28e. Recordation of deferment
§ 28l. Collection of mining law administration fees
§ 31. Oath: agent or attorney in fact, beyond district of claim
§ 38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
§ 39. Surveyors of mining claims
§ 40. Verification of affidavits
§ 41. Intersecting or crossing veins
§ 42. Patents for nonmineral lands: application, survey, notice, acreage limitation, payment
§ 43. Conditions of sale by local legislature
§ 46. Additional land districts and officers
§ 47. Impairment of rights or interests in certain mining property
§ 48. Lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota; sale and disposal as public lands
§ 49. Lands in Missouri and Kansas; disposal as agricultural lands
§ 49b. Mining laws relating to placer claims extended to Alaska
§ 49c. Recording notices of location of Alaskan mining claims
§ 49d. Miners’ regulations for recording notices in Alaska; certain records legalized
§ 49f. Fees of recorders in Alaska for filing proofs of work and improvements
§ 50. Grants to States or corporations not to include mineral lands
§ 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights
§ 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
§ 54. Liability for damages to stock raising and homestead entries by mining activities