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Canadian- Mining Regulations. 
NOTICE. 
r PHE following is a summary of the Regulations with respect to the manner of 
1 recording claims for Mineral Lands, other than Coal Lands, and the conditions 
governing the purchase of the same. 
Any person may explore vacant Dominion Lands not appropriated or reserved 
by Government for other purposes, and may search therein, either by surface or 
subterranean prospecting, for mineral deposits, with a view to obtaining a mining 
location for the same, but no mining location shall be granted until actual discovery 
lias been made of the vein, lode or deposit of mineral or metal within the limits of 
the location of chum. 
A location for mining, except for Iron, shall not be more than 1500 feet in 
length, nor more than 600 feet in breadth. A location for mining Iron, shall not 
excted 100 acres in area. 
On discovering a mineral deposit any person may obtain a mining location, 
upon marking out his location on the ground, in accordance with the regulations in 
thai behalf, and filing with the Agent of Dominion Lands for the district, within 
sixty days from discovery, an affidavit in form prescribed by Mining Regulations, 
and paying at the same time an office fee of five dollars, which will entitle the 
person so recording his claim to enter into possession of the location applied for. 
At any time before the expiration ol five years from the date of recording his 
claim, the claimant may, upon filing proof with the Local Agent that he has 
expended $500.00 in actual mining operations on the claim, by paying to the Local 
Agent therefor $5 per acre cash and a further sum of $60 to cover the cost of survey, 
' obtain a patent for said claim as provided in the said Mining Regulations. 
Copies of the. Jieyulations mat) be obtained upon application to the. 
Department of the, Interior. 
-.- 1_ BURGESS, 
Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. 
Department of rib. Interior, ) 
Uttawa, Canada, December 1892. \ 
