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kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3832.34"
title: "43"
number: "3832.34"
heading: "How may I use my mill site?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3832.34"
---

# §3832.34. How may I use my mill site?

- (a) Upon obtaining authorization under the surface management regulations of the surface managing agency, you may use and occupy dependent mill sites for:
  - (1) Placement of grinding, crushing, or milling facilities (such as rod and ball mills, cone crushers, and floatation cells) and reduction facilities (such as smelting, electro-winning, roasters, autoclaves, and leachate recovery);
  - (2) Mine administrative and support buildings, warehouses and maintenance buildings, electrical plants and substations;
  - (3) Tailings ponds and leach pads;
  - (4) Rock and soil dumps;
  - (5) Water and process treatment plants; and
  - (6) Any other use that is reasonably incident to mine development and operation, except for uses exclusively supporting reclamation or mine closure.
- (b) Upon obtaining authorization under the surface management regulations of the surface managing agency, you may use and occupy independent mill sites for processing metallic minerals from lode claims using:
  - (1) Quartz or stamp mills; or
  - (2) Reduction works, including placement of grinding, crushing, or milling facilities (such as rod and ball mills, cone crushers, and floatation cells), reduction facilities (such as smelting, electro-winning, roasters, autoclaves, and leachate recovery), tailings ponds, and leach pads.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 2, 1201, 1457, 1740, 1744.

### Source

Source: 68 FR 61069, Oct. 24, 2003, unless otherwise noted.