What is the intent of registration?
Registration is intended to reserve natural resources — finite nonmetallic mineral resources — through wise land use planning and zoning, for the needs of future generations. State law, by providing for the registration of marketable nonmetallic mineral deposits, encourages the identification, preservation and planning for the potential development of marketable deposits. Registration of deposits may also provide protection against any present or future land uses such as the erection of permanent structures that would impede their development. In this way, registration and land use planning and zoning may be used as tools to promote the future development of identified nonmetallic mineral resources.
