An Act to Amend Sections Thirty-Seven and Seventy-Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Thirty-Seven, as Amended, Otherwise Known as the Mining Act

REPUBLIC ACT No. 225

An Act to Amend Sections Thirty-Seven and Seventy-Six of Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred and Thirty-Seven, as Amended, Otherwise Known as the Mining Act

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Sections thirty-seven and seventy-six of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-seven, as amended, otherwise known as the Mining Act, are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 5, 1948.

"Sec. 37. In the case of the first, second, fourth, and fifth groups of mineral lands, no locator, applicant or lessee shall be entitled to hold or lease in his, its or their own names or in the name of any person, association, corporation, sociedad anonima, or partnership more than three lode mineral claims on the same vein or lode, or more than three placer mining claims, in the case of an individual, or more than three placer mining claims, in the case of a corporation, an association, a sociedad anonima, or a partnership on the same placer ground: Provided, However, That in the case of lode or placer grounds containing extensive disseminated low grades ore bodies belonging to the first and fifth groups of mineral lands, whether or not in place, an individual, corporation, association, sociedad anonima or partnership shall be entitled to hold a lease in his, its or their own names, not more than two hundred and fifty lode or fifty placer mining claims on the same lode or placer ground. Extensive disseminated low grade ore bodies as used in this Act shall mean ore bodies containing minerals in a mass deposit the average aggregate value of the commercially recoverable metals or minerals of which does not exceed the equivalent in value, at the time leased, of ore containing by weight three per centum of copper alone. The Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources shall, through the Director of Mines, determine at the time of the granting of the lease or leases whether the mining claims for which lease is applied come under the provisions of this section."

"Sec. 76. Subject to the provisions of Article XIII of the Constitution, the maximum area that may be leased to a person, association, or corporation under the provisions of this Act in any one province shall be as follows: