Alaska Administrative Code
Title 11 - Natural Resources
Part 7 - Trust Land Management
Chapter 99 - Management of Alaska Mental Health Trust Land
11 AAC 99.100 - Mining rights

(a) Rights to locatable minerals on trust land are available only as provided in this section. To the extent that a statute or regulation applicable to other state land, including AS 38.05.185, 38.05.195, 38.05.205, and 38.05.245, contains a requirement that provides for or permits the acquisition of mineral rights, rights to prospect, or rights that open land to claim staking, mineral location, or leasehold location, that provision of law is considered inconsistent with 11 AAC 99.020, and does not apply to trust land.

(b) The executive director, in consultation with the trust authority, shall open areas of trust land under one or more of the following methods, or under (c) of this section, which the executive director determines to be consistent with 11 AAC 99.020:

(c) If an area is not opened for the disposal of rights to locatable minerals under (b) of this section, a person may apply under 11 AAC 99.030 for an authorization to explore and prospect for or lease locatable minerals in that area.

(d) Terms and conditions of an authorization under (b) of this section, applicable to mining rights on trust land, shall be developed in consultation with the trust authority.

(e) The rent, royalty, and assessment work credit provisions of law applicable to other state land, including AS 38.05.211 and 38.05.212, do not apply to trust land unless determined by the executive director, on a case-by-case basis, to be consistent with 11 AAC 99.020. The determination shall be stated in a written finding.

(f) Nothing in this chapter affects valid mineral rights on trust land that existed at the time the land was designated as trust land.