The United States House Committee on Mines and Mining is a defunct

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of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Committee on Mines and Mining was created on December 19, 1865, for consideration of subjects relating to mining interests. It exercised jurisdiction over the

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, the Bureau of Mines, the establishment of mining schools and mining experimental stations, mineral land laws, the welfare of men working in mines, mining debris, relief in cases of mineral contracts connected with the prosecution of war, the mining of radium ore, and the Government's fuel yards in the

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. In 1947, the committee was abolished and its duties were transferred to the

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Chairmen

References

Records of the Committee on Mines and Mining (1865- 1946)
Records of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and Its Predecessors, Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233),

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