First number indicates chapter. Second number indicates section of that chapter.

• Accuracy (survey): 5–2, 5–5, 5–13
• Acquired Lands: 1–25
• Act of 1866 (lodes): 1–5
• Act of 1870 (placers): 1–6
• Act of 1872 (general mining laws): 1–7
• Act of 1884 (Alaska): 1–9
• Act of 1892 (building stone): 1–10
• Act of 1904 (monuments to control): 1–13
• Act of 1920 (mineral leasing): 1–14
• Act of 1947 (materials): 1–15
• Act of 1954 (multiple use): 1–16
• Act of 1955 (common varieties): 1–17
• Act of 1955 (power sites): 1–18
• Act of 1960 (mill sites): 1–19
• Act of 1962 (petrified wood): 1–20
• Act of 1970 (geothermal steam): 1–21
• Act of 1976 (recordation): 1–22
• Additional and Amended Location Certificate: 2–13, 4–6
• Additional Notes and Certificate on Plat: 5–18
• Alaska: 1–9, 1–23, 1–24
• Alaska Native Claims: 1–23
• Alaska Public Sale Act: 1–24
• Amended Location: 2–13, 5–1, 5–3, 5–20
• Amended (Supplemental) Order for Survey: 4–6, 4–7, 5–3, 5–21
• Amended Survey: 5–19
• Annual Assessment Work: 2–4, 2–12
• Apex Law: 1–49
• Application for Patent: 2–6
• Application for Survey: 4–4
• Approval of Survey: 5–15
• Areas: 5–8, 5–10, 5–12, 5–13
• Areas subject to special mining laws: 1–24
• Assays: 2–1
• Attorney-at-Law: 1–43, 4–3
• Azimuth: 5–10
• Bearing rocks: 5–4
• Bearing trees: 5–4, 5–10
• Bedded deposits: 1–48, 2–1, 5–3, 5–5
• Blanket veins: 5–3, 5–5
• Building stone: 1–10
• Burden of proof: 2–1, 2–12
• Calculations: 5–8, 5–13
• Cancelled Survey: 4–6, 5–16
• Cancelled Survey Order: 4–6, 4–8, 5–17
• Cemeteries: 5–3
• Change of claim boundaries: 2–13
• Claim records: 4–5, 5–1
• Claim staking: 2–3
• Closures: 5–13
• Coal Surveys: 5–3
• Common Improvement: 1–47, 5–5
• Common Varieties: 1–17
• Conflicts: 5–3, 5–8, 5–12, 5–13
• Coordinates
  • Geographic: 5–10, 5–12
  • Plane: 5–1
• Corner accessories: 5–4
• Corner markings: 2–3, 5–10
• Corner numbers: 2–3
• Corners on patented land: 2–3
• Corner ties: 2–3, 5–3, 5–8, 5–12
• Death Valley National Monument, California: 1–24
• Descriptive Report (placer claims): 5–6
• Discovery: 1–47, 2–1, 2–4, 5–3
• Discovery lost: 2–1
• Discovery paint: 2–2, 5–3, 5–12
• Discovery shaft: 2–3
• Discovery work: 2–2, 2–5, 5–1, 5–5
• Drill logs: 2–1
• Electronic distance measurement: 5–2
• End center monuments: 2–3
• End lines: 1–49, 2–3, 5–12
• Errors: 5–12, 6–5
• Exchanges: 1–23
• Extralateral Rights: 1–49
• Field Notes: 5–10, 5–11, 5–12, 5–18
• Fissionable source material: 1–23
• Float: 2–1
• Goethermal steam: 1–25
• Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska: 1–24
• Homestead Entry Surveys: 5–3
• Improvements: 5–5, 5–7, 5–10, 5–12, 5–15, 5–21
• Indemnity Grants: 1–23
• Instruments: 5–2, 5–10
• Intersections: 5–8, 5–10, 5–12, 5–13
• Junior claim: 1–49
• Kings Range National Conservation Area, California: 1–24
• Known lodes in placers: 2–4
• Leasing Act: 1–14
• Length: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–3, 5–12
• Location: 2–3, 2–6, 2–8, 2–9, 5–3, 5–10, 5–12
• Location certificate: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–10
• Location monument: 5–3
• Location notice: 2–3, 2–6, 2–7
• Location survey: 2–3
• Lode v. Placer: 2–1
• Lode claims: 1–5, 1–7, 2–1, 2–2, 2–3
• Lode line: 5–12
• Magnetic Declination: 5–12
• Marketability: 2–1, 2–4
• Materials Act: 1–15
• Measurements: 5–2, 5–10
• Metes and bounds: 2–3, 4–6
• Mill Sites: 1–7, 1–19, 2–7, 2–8, 5–7
• Mineral, definition: 2–1
• Mineral Examiner: 2–1
• Mineral Monuments: 5–3
• Mineral Survey: 2–6
• Mineral Surveyor
  • Appointment: 3–1, 3–2, 3–3, 3–4, 3–5, 3–6
  • Contracts: 3–14, 3–15, 3–16, 3–17, 4–4.7
  • Duties: 3–10, 3–11, 3–12, 3–13
  • Examination: 3–9
  • Qualifications: 3–7, 3–8
  • Restrictions: 3–18, 3–19, 3–20
  • Selection of: 4–2
• Mining Districts: 1–1, 1–2, 1–3
• Mt. McKinley National Park, Alaska: 1–24
• Multiple Use: 1–16
• National Forests: 1–23, 4–6
• National Parks and Monuments: 1–24, 4–6
• Native graves: 5–3
• Navigable water: 1–50
• New legislation, update: 1–25
• New survey required: 5–20
• Number of claims: 2–3, 2–6, 2–8, 4–4.7
• O & C Lands: 1–24
• Oil shale placer claims: 1–24
• Olympic National Park, Washington: 1–24
• Order for Survey: 4–6, 5–17
• Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona: 1–24
• Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona: 1–24
• Patent
  • Exclusion of abandoned claim: 5–23
  • In two parts: 5–24
  • Long after survey: 5–22
• Patent expenditure: 1–47, 5–5, 5–15, 5–21
• Patent survey
  • Departures from normal procedure: 5–16 to 5–24 incl.
  • Field work: 5–1 to 5–7 incl.
  • Office work: 5–8 to 5–11 incl.
  • Processing: 5–12 to 5–15 incl.
  • Required: 4–1, 5–6, 5–7
• Petrified Wood: 1–20
• Placer claims: 1–6, 1–7, 2–4, 2–5, 2–6, 5–6
• Placer v. Lode: 2–1
• Plats: 5–9, 5–11, 5–14, 5–16, 5–18, 5–19, 6–4
• Power Sites: 1–18
• Prescott, Arizona Watershed: 1–24
• Railroad Grants: 1–23
• Recording: 1–7, 1–22, 2–11, 2–12
• Reference Monument: 5–4
• Relocation: 2–13, 5–20
• Reservations: 1–23
• Restoration of lost or obliterated corners: 5–3, 6–1
• Resurveys: 6–2
• Rights-of-way: 5–3
• Riparian Rights: 1–50
• Rule of approximation: 2–6
• School Grants: 1–23
• Senior claim: 1–49
• Segregation Surveys: 6–3
• Severance: 1–23
• Side center monuments: 2–3
• Size of claims: 2–3, 2–6, 2–7, 4–6
• Spanish Land Grants: 1–23
• Special Surveys: 5–3
• State mining laws, general: 1–27
  • Alaska: 1–28
  • Arizona: 1–29
  • Arkansas: 1–30
  • California: 1–31
  • Colorado: 1–32
  • Florida: 1–33
  • Idaho: 1–34
  • Louisiana: 1–35
  • Mississippi: 1–36
  • Montana: 1–37
  • Nebraska: 1–38
  • Nevada: 1–39
  • New Mexico: 1–40
  • North Dakota: 1–41
  • Oregon: 1–42
  • South Dakota: 1–43
  • Utah: 1–44
  • Washington: 1–45
  • Wyoming: 1–46
• Stockraising Homesteads: 1–23, 5–3
• Supplemental Plat: 5–16, 6–4
• Survey methods: 2–3, 5–2
• Survey records: 4–5, 5–1
• Surveyor and The Law: 1–47, 1–48
• Thorium: 1–23
• Townsites: 1–23, 5–3
• Trace of mineral: 2–1, 2–4
• Transit and Tape: 5–2
• Tunnel Sites: 2–9, 2–10
• U.S. Marshall: 5–1
• U.S. Surveys: 5–3
• Unapproved survey: 5–17
• Underground discovery: 2–1, 2–2
• Uranium: 1–23
• Use, mill site: 2–8
• Valuable mineral deposit: 2–1
• Width: 2–3, 2–6, 4–6, 5–3, 5–12
• Wilderness Areas: 1–24
• Witness Corner: 5–4
• Withdrawals: 1–23, 4–5