(1) The State Government may, from time to time, by notification acquire the right to any minerals in any land and the right to the minerals specified in the notification shall, from the date of its publication, vest in the State Government.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, on the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) the right to the minerals in the land specified in the notification shall vest absolutely in the State Government and the State Government shall subject to the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957 (67 of 1957) have all the powers necessary for the proper enjoyment or disposal of such right.
(3) The right to the minerals in the land includes the right of access to land for the purpose of prospecting and working mines and for the purposes subsidiary thereto including the sinking of pits and shafts, erection of plants and machinery, construction of roads, stacking of minerals and deposit of refuse, quarrying and obtaining building and road materials, using water and taking timber and any other purpose which the State Government may declare to be subsidiary to mining.
(4) If the State Government has assigned to any person its right over any minerals, and if for the proper enjoyment of such right, it is necessary that all or any of the powers specified in sub-sections (2) and (3) should be exercised, the Collector may, by an order in writing, subject to such conditions and reservations as he may specify, delegate such powers to the person to whom the right has been assigned.