Rosette Incorporated v. United States

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• holding that the right to the resources remains in the federal government
• stating that even if geothermal resources were not hot enough to be converted into electricity, “this does not prevent them from being removed from the soil and utilized for commercial purposes”
• stating that Rosette’s rights to use the hot water are governed by its rights under its patents and the reservation of mineral rights by the federal government pursuant to the Stock-Raising Homestead Act
• agreeing that the mineral reservation in the Stock-Raising Homestead Act should be read broadly in light of the dual purposes of Congress to grant patents for agriculture while retaining ownership of subsurface resources for future energy development

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).