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107.001 Definitions.

107.001

SUBCHAPTER I
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
107.001 Definitions. In this subchapter:

107.001(1)

(1) "Exploration mining lease" means any lease, option to lease, option to purchase or similar conveyance entered into for the purpose of determining the presence, location, quality or quantity of metalliferous minerals or for the purpose of mining, developing or extracting metalliferous minerals, or both. Any lease, option to lease, option to purchase or similar conveyance entered into by a mining company is rebuttably presumed to be an exploration mining lease.

107.001(2)

(2) "Metalliferous minerals" means naturally occurring minerals which contain metal.

107.001(3)

(3) "Mining company" means any person or agent of a person who has a prospecting or mining permit under s. 293.45 or 293.49.

107.001 - ANNOT.

History: 1977 c. 253; 1979 c. 353; 1995 a. 227.