Exploration Rights

Exploration and Land Reserved to the State

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Fees for Exploration Rights


Tariff effective from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2013

Section¹ Subject
1 Prospecting licence: $33
2 Prospecting licence Duplicate: $15
3 Sand of 4 staking tags: $4
7 Registration Fee of staked claim: $27
8 Registration Fee of map designated claim

North of the fifty-second degree of latitude

Area of claim Number of map-designated claims
1 to 150 Over 150*
Less than 25 ha $27 $135
25 to 45 ha $98 $490
45 to 50 ha $109 $545
Over 50 ha $123 $615

* The special rate applies only for an application covered by a single NTS sheet, scale 1:50,000.


South of the fifty-second degree of latitude

Area of claim Number of map-designated claims
1 to 40 Over 40*
Less than 25 ha $27 $135
25 to 100 ha $53 $265
Over 100 ha $80

$400


10 - 11

Claim renewal fee

North of the fifty-second degree of latitude

Renewal applied for Area of claim
Less than 25 ha 25 to 45 ha 45 to 50 ha Over 50 ha

More than 60 days before expiry date

$27 $98 $109 $123
From 60 days before expiry date to expiry date

$54 $196 $218 $246


South of the fifty-second degree of latitude

Renewal applied for Area of claim
Less than 25 ha 25 to 100 ha Over 100 ha

More than 60 days before expiry date

$27 $53 $80
From 60 days before expiry date to expiry date

$54 $106 $160

13

Additional amount when a work report is registered within 60 days before the claim expiry date: $100.

15

Minimum cost of work to be carried out on a claim

North of the fifty-second degree of latitude

Validity Area of claim
Less than 25 ha 25 to 45 ha Over 45 ha

1

$48

$120

$135
2
$160 $400 $450
3 $320 $800 $900
4 $480 $1,200 $1,350
5 $640 $1,600 $1,800
6 $750 $1,800 $1,800
7 and over $1,000 $2,500 $2,500


South of the fifty-second degree of latitude

Validity Area of claim
Less than 25 ha 25 to 100 ha Over 100 ha

1 to 3

$500

$1,200

$1,800
4 to 6
$750 $1,800 $2,700
7 and over
$1,000 $2,500 $3,600

33 Application for a common claim expiry date: $10
Application for reducing a term of a claim: $10
34 Mining exploration licence Annual fee: $123/km²
36 Minimum cost of work to be carried out on a land covered by a mining exploration licence

Year
1
2
3 and 4
5 and 6
7 and 8
9 and 10
Cost/km²
$100
$200
$500
$1,000
$1,500
$2,000

128 Public register registration Fee of immovable real mining rights, transfer or other instrument: $15 per mining right - maximum of $1,221 per instrument
129 Duties payable for taking part in a drawing of lots: $123
130 Application for revoking a claim: $134
1. The sections refer to sections in the Regulation respecting Mineral Substances other than Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Brine.




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