---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 21"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "21"
heading: "Mineral lands reserved"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/21"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General"
---

# §21. Mineral lands reserved


In all cases lands valuable for minerals shall be reserved from sale, except as otherwise expressly directed by law.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2318.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2318 derived from act July 4, 1866, ch. 166, § 5, 14 Stat. 86.