The Mining Law: A Study in Perpetual Motion (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Leshy, John D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138951854 ISBN 13: 9781138951853

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Originally published in 1987, John D. Leshy presents this scholarly study of the 1872 Mining Law as a legal treatise and history of mining in the West from the point of view of mineral exploration and production. This mining law governed the United States mining practice yet had never been changed. The Mining Law attempts to highlight the role of policy and government as well as the more obscure elements of the law which complicated mining practice in the eighties. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and policy makers.

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Review:

'A definitive account of federal mining policy from the era of the California Gold Rush to the present. Major legislative reform is urgently needed. . . and Leshy concludes this lucid and judicious legal study with some constructive policy recommendations.' Western Library 'In this comprehensive and quite readable volume [the author] relates how, if not entirely why, the mining law became, in the words of an early critic, a perpetual motion machine seemingly designed to promote litigation, create controversy, and occasional difficulties.' Amicus Journal 'Sufficiently technical and scholarly to be useful for lawyers and at the same time sufficiently free of jargon and clearly organized so as to be understandable to nonlawyers.' Rural Development Perspectives

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138951854
• ISBN 13: 9781138951853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 22