---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 668"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "668"
heading: "“Hydraulic mining” and “mining by hydraulic process” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/668"
units:
  - "Chapter 14 — California Debris Commission"
---

# §668. “Hydraulic mining” and “mining by hydraulic process” defined


For the purposes of this chapter “hydraulic mining” and “mining by the hydraulic process” are declared to have the meaning and application given to said terms in the State of California.


## Source credit

(Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 8, 27 Stat 508.)