---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 214.8"
title: "25"
number: "214.8"
heading: "Acreage limitation."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/214.8"
---

# §214.8. Acreage limitation.


No person, firm, or corporation shall hold under lease at any one time without special permission from the Secretary of the Interior in excess of the following areas:

- (a) For deposits of the nature of lodes, or veins containing ores of gold, silver, copper, or other useful metals, 640 acres.
- (b) For beds of placer gold, gypsum, asphaltum, phosphate, iron ores, and other useful minerals, other than coal, lead, and zinc, 960 acres.
- (c) **For coal, 4,800 acres.**
- (d) **For lead and zinc, 1,280 acres.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 3, 34 Stat. 543.

### Source

Source: 22 FR 10605, Dec. 24, 1957, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 47 FR 13327, Mar. 30, 1982.