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The Supreme Court denied certiorari in a case where the Secretary of the Interior sought to cancel mining claims held by respondent Melton Baker on the basis that the claims covered excess reserves that were not marketable. Justice Blackmun, joined by three other justices, dissented from the denial of certiorari. Blackmun argued that the issue of what standard should be used to determine if a mineral discovery is "valuable" under federal law was an important one that deserved review. He also argued that the

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