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United States Department of the Interior <br />IN REPLY REFFA T0: <br />OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND APPEALS <br />Interior Board of Land Appeals <br />4015 Wilson Boulevard <br />Arlington. Virginia 22203 <br />MID-~NTII~D7r RFSWR(~S, INC. <br />PTIYClN Il2GN CURR~RATION <br />ISLA 94-421 Decided May 14, 1999 <br />Appeal fran a decision of the Glenwoccl Springs, Colorado, Ai2a Mana- <br />ger, Bureau of Land Managatent, restricting limestone mining to locatable <br />grade material on mining claims. CD1C 246344 - QhC 246350. <br />Affirted in part, set aside in part. <br />Mining Claims: Generally--Mining Claims: Canton Vari- <br />eties of Minerals: Generally <br />Limestone suitable for use in the manufacture of <br />cement, metallurgical or chettical. grade limestone, <br />gypstmi, and the like are not "camm~ varieties." <br />Although a deposit of limestone may have physical <br />properties that make it amenable to those uses, it <br />will still be considered a camm~ variety if it is <br />marketable for use only in the same way that orri;narv <br />varieties of the mineral are used. <br />2. Materials Act--Mining Claims: Abandormient--Mining <br />Claims : Rental or Claim Maintenance Fees : ~-P*+P~ ~ ly <br />Although BIM rtt3y not dispose of mineral ttr3terial frtrtt <br />the public lands where there are any unpatented min- <br />ing claims which have not been canceled by appropriate <br />legal proceedings, BIM properly may establish a canrun- <br />ity pit on land formerly anbraced by mining claims that <br />were aY~r,r3nnrx; for failure to pay azuw,al rental fees. <br />Materials Act--Mining Claims: C,ano,-ally--Min;na C1ainLS: <br />Abandorarp~t--Mining Claims: Lands Subject to--Miuung <br />Claims: Location--Mining Claims: Relocation--Mining <br />Claims: Rental or Claim Maintenance Fees: Generally <br />The fact that an operator possesses a m;n;ng ~rm;t <br />issued by a state goverrmient affords no rights in aban- <br />doned claims that BINI must recognize. Appellants could <br />not acm i; re any interest in the abandozLn. i claims short <br />of making a new location. <br />148 TRT.A 370 <br />