2025 Session
§ 514.17 — Miners
Plain-Language Summary
This section gives miners a lien for labor, skill, materials, or machinery used in opening or working a mine. The lien attaches to the mine and all related rights of the owner or lessee.
514.17 MINERS.
Whoever performs labor, or furnishes any skill, material, or machinery, in or about the opening or working of any mine, at the request of the owner thereof, or of the lessee of such owner, or of any contractor with either, shall have a lien for the value thereof upon the interest of such owner or lessee, as the case may be, in the mine and its appurtenances, which lien may be asserted and enforced as in this chapter prescribed in respect to other liens upon real estate.
History:
History: History: (8506) RL s 3520
Practical Notes
If you work in or provide supplies for a mining operation in Minnesota, you have a lien on the mine and the owner’s or lessee’s interest in it. The lien is enforced the same way as other real estate liens.