As used in this article, “mineral property” does not include oil and gas property or productive copper mineral property and means:

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A. “class one productive mineral property”, which means mineral lands, all mineral reserves and interests in minerals in mineral lands and all severed mineral products from mineral lands when the mineral lands are held under private ownership in fee and the property is mined or operated in good faith for its mineral values with a reasonable degree of continuity during the year preceding the tax year in which its value is determined and to an extent in keeping with the market demand and conditions affecting the extraction and disposition of the product;

B. “class one nonproductive mineral property”, which means mineral lands, all mineral reserves and interests in minerals in mineral lands and all severed mineral products from mineral lands when the mineral lands are held under private ownership in fee and the property is known to contain minerals in commercially workable quantities of such a character as add present value to the land in addition to its values for other purposes but is not operated so as to fall in the class of class one productive mineral property;

C. “class two mineral property”, which means the severed mineral products from mineral lands held by possessory title under the laws of the United States; and

D. “class three mineral property”, which means severed mineral products from leasehold or contract mineral rights in mineral lands, the fee of which is vested in the United States or the state.