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Tracy Martin Mineral Lands Administrator

Mineral Titles Branch


The Ministry of Energy Mines and Natural Gas is currently completing a provincial review of existing mineral and coal land reserves to determine if more land can be made available for exploration

To date, 89% of existing mineral, placer, and coal land reserves have been reviewed

As a result: • More than 50,000 Ha of mineral, placer, and/or coal lands have been made available for exploration • A number of Conditional Reserves (700,000 Ha of land) have been removed


15%

1%

5%

4%

75%

Parks (Includes: Provincial Parks, Protected Areas, Conservancies, Ecological Reserves, and National Parks) First Nation Land (Includes: Indian Reserves, Treaty Land, and Treaty Related Land)

No Registration Reserves (area outside of Parks and First Nation Land)

Conditional Registration Reserves (area outside of Parks, First Nation Land, and No Registration Reserves) Mineral Land


Reserves are established by a Regulation of the Chief Gold Commissioner (CGC) under Section 22 of the Mineral Tenure Act and/or Section 21 of the Coal Act. It is the legal instrument used to prohibit or restrict access to mineral, placer and coal lands.

“Mineral Lands”, are defined in Section 1 of the Mineral Tenure Act, (as not are) lands in which minerals and placer minerals, or the right to explore for, develop, and produce minerals or placer minerals, is vested in or reserved to the government. “Coal land”, as defined in Section 1 of the Coal Act, is land in which the coal of the right to explore for, develop and produce coal is vested in or reserved to the government.


Three Types of Reserves: 1. No Registration Reserve 2. Reserves with Conditions 3. Coal Land Reserves

Descriptions can be found on our webpage: • Getting Started with Reserves

http://www.MineralTitles.gov.bc.ca/Reserves/Pages/info.aspx • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

http://www.MineralTitles.gov.bc.ca/faq/Pages/reserves.aspx

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An NRR prohibits a free miner from acquiring mineral claims, placer claims or both mineral and placer claims

No Registration Reserve (NRR)

Example: A parcel of land that has been proposed for protection under a land planning process or for a transfer to a First nations in the course of treaty negotiations


Note: Alienated Lands (Parks, Federal Transfer Lands and NRR’s) are all shown in light green on the map. Use the Legend and drill-down identify tool for identification.

Mineral Map


A reserve may impose specific conditions on a free miner proposing activity on a particular parcel of land.

Reserve with Conditions:

Section 22 of the Mineral Tenure Act gives examples of such conditions. Example: A proposed hydro project or transmission line may request conditions such as preventing a person from interfering with, obstructing or endangering the construction, operation or maintenance of the project.


Mineral Map

This conditional reserve is for a hydro project

A free miner must not obstruct, endanger or interfere with, the construction, operation or maintenance of a proposed hydro project or transmission line.


A CLR prohibits the issuance of a coal license or lease and prohibits exploration and production of coal from the coal reserve area.

Coal Land Reserve (CLR)


Note: CLR’s show on the MTO maps, do not search for coal tenure using MTO.


There are a few ways to identify if the ground you are interested in or, have a claim over, is encumbered by a reserve

1. Identify the cell(s) prior to acquiring a claim using the MTO map

2. Use your Tenure Overlap Report (TOR) after you have acquired a claim


• Zoom to your Area of Interest on either the Mineral or

Placer Map • ensure the MTO Grid is visible

(Scale less than 1:80,000)

• Select the identify tool on the map layer of

interest • The grey ‘i’ circle will change from grey to black

• If the tool is selected it will appear on the toolbar with a red box around it

Identify the cell(s) prior to acquiring a claim using the MTO map


Click in the MTO grid cell you are interested in

• An information window will appear in the right hand screen with the cell information

• This cell is available for Mineral and Placer

Acquisition


Use the Drill-down Identify tool to report information on visible layers On-screen report displays information for the location clicked on the screen

Check to see if there are other land interests that may impede or restrict your rights to the minerals:

•Alienated Lands such as Parks, Protected Areas, Federal Transfer Lands •Crown Granted 2 post mineral claims •Mineral Reserves


Three Reserves are identified under the point clicked on screen within Cell Key ID 092H08K011B

• 352818 • 329574 • 1005582

Use MTO to search these site numbers


Use your Tenure Overlap Report (TOR) after you have acquired a claim This report is posted to the tenure owner’s bulletin board and emailed to each client upon acquisition of a new claim.


1. Go to https://www.mtonline.gov.bc.ca

2. Select the ‘Site Search’ button

3. Enter the reserve site number that was established using the MTO map, or from your TOR, click next

https://www.mtonline.gov.bc.ca/�


BC Regulation 186/2011

Ministry File Number

Links to the name of the Agency, Company

or Individual who requested the reserve

4. Click on the site number


5. Reserve Site Details, including the restriction type and the BC Regulation or Order number links

directly to the Mineral or Placer map to view the shape of the reserve.

Click on one of the map

links to zoom directly to the

site

Indicates that type of

reserve: NRR or CRR and what tenure

type Order Type and Number

Effective date of the reserve

Note: Coal tenure information is not updated in MTO. Please use the branch website for current coal information.


6. More information about the reserve can be found on the Mineral Titles Branch website:

www.MineralTitles.gov.bc.ca/Reserves/Pages/RegsMaps.aspx • Regulations and Maps are categorized by year • Example, BC Regulation 0001-12 would be located under the 2012 link

View the sketch map of

the reserve

View the BC Regulation or Order

Link directly to the MTO

site details

http://www.mineraltitles.gov.bc.ca/Reserves/Pages/RegsMaps.aspx�


Site Number 1005902

BC Regulation 82/12


7. Step by Step instructions are available on the MTO Help Guide

http://www.MineralTitles.gov.bc.ca/mto/help/search/reserve/Pages/default.html

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8. Tenure Overlap Report (TOR) information

• Run a TOR on your claim using the step-by-step instructions found in our MTO Help Guide under the ‘Help by Topic’ menu item

• Your TOR will provide you with information about other land interests that intersect with your claim, including any Reserves your claim intersects

• Detailed descriptions of the TOR items can be in the MTO Help Guide.


Updated request form can be found on the Mineral Titles website: www.MineralTitles.gov.bc.ca (under Forms and/or Reserves)

• New request form template MUST be used. • Supporting documentation on page 2 of the request form MUST be submitted. • Send completed form/documentation by email to: [email protected] or mail

to: Mineral Titles Branch 300 - 865 Hornby Street, Vancouver BC V6Z 2G3 • No FEE required to request.

The establishment of a reserve is under the statutory authority of the Chief Gold

Commissioner (CGC). All requests are reviewed for consideration.

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Learn more about

Reserves and Placer Designated

Areas

Instructions on how to

Search Reserves

Review the Orders and

sketch maps by

Year

Reserve request

submission and

process

Print off a map of 1of

the 14 Recreational

Panning Reserves

www.MineralTitles.gov.bc.ca/Reserves/

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• 1-866-616-4999. You must leave a message and we will return your call.

• Mineral Titles: 300-865 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC

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