S TJ IMI HVL" A. IR, IT 
OF 
Canadian Mining Regulations. 
NOTICE. 
THE following is a summary of the Regulations with respect to the manner of 
recording claims for Mineral Lands, other than Coal Lands, aud 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 
has been made of the vein, lode or deposit of mineral or metal within the limits of 
the location of claim. 
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 
exceed 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 
that 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 of 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 $50 to cover the cost of survey, 
obtain a patent for said claim as provided in the said Mining Regulations. 
Copies of the Regulations may be obtained upon application to ike. 
Department of the Interior. 
-a., m. btxrgess, 
Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. 
Department of the Interior, 
Ottawa, Canada, December 1892. 
