---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 213"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "213"
heading: "Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/213"
units:
  - "Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits"
  - "Subchapter III — Phosphates"
---

# §213. Royalties for use of deposits of silica, limestone, or other rock embraced in lease


Any lease to develop and extract phosphates, phosphate rock, and associated or related minerals under the provisions of sections [211](/usc/30/211.md) to [214](/usc/30/214.md) of this title shall provide that the lessee may use so much of any deposit of silica or limestone or other rock situated on any public lands embraced in the lease as may be utilized in the processing or refining of the phosphates, phosphate rock, and associated or related minerals mined from the leased lands or from other lands upon payments of such royalty as may be determined by the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior, which royalty may be stated in the lease or, as to the leases already issued, may be provided for in an attachment to the lease to be duly executed by the lessor and the lessee.


## Source credit

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 11, 41 Stat. 440; June 3, 1948, ch. 379, § 4, 62 Stat. 291.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1948—Act June 3, 1948, amended section generally, omitting provision relating to royalties and annual rents, and inserting provisions relating to use of deposits of silica, limestone or other rock embraced in the lease upon the payment of a suitable royalty.