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The mining law of 1872 : past, politics, and prospects / Gordon Morris Bakken.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bakken, Gordon Morris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mining law--United States--History.
- Mining law.
- Mining law--United States.
- Mineral industries--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Mineral industries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- [1st pbk. ed.].
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bakken traces the roots of the mining law and details the way its unintended consequences have shaped western legal thought from Nome to Tombstone.
- 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.
- Notes:
- First published: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283858298
- 1283858290
- 9780826343581
- 0826343589
- OCLC:
- 794491159
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