---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410aaa–48"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410aaa–48"
heading: "Regulation of mining"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410aaa-48"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–Y — California Desert Lands Parks, Preserve, and Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Areas"
  - "Part C — Mojave National Preserve"
---

# §410aaa–48. Regulation of mining


Subject to valid existing rights, all mining claims located within the [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) shall be subject to all applicable laws and regulations applicable to mining within [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) System, including [section 1865(b) of title 18](/usc/18/1865.md?p=b) and subchapter III of [chapter 1007](/usc/54/chstI/dA/ch1007.md) of title 54, and any patent issued after October 31, 1994, shall convey title only to the minerals together with the right to use the surface of lands for mining purposes, subject to such laws and regulations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–433, title V, § 508, Oct. 31, 1994, 108 Stat. 4491.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In text, “section 1865(b) of title 18 and subchapter III of chapter 1007 of title 54” substituted for “the Mining in the Parks Act (16 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.)” on authority of Pub. L. 113–287, § 6(e), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3272, which Act enacted Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.