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OF 



Canadian Mining Regulations 



InT OTIC E. 



THE following is a summary of the Re^ilatioiis with respect to the mauuer of 

 recording claims for Mineral Lands, other than Coal Lands, and the conditions 

 governing the purchase of the same. 



Any jierson may explore vacant Dominion Lands not appropriated or reserved 

 by Government ibr 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 rmtil 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, excejit for Iron or Petroleum, shall not be more than 

 1500 feet in length, nor more tlian 6(iU feet in breadth. A location for mining 

 Iron or Petroleum shall not exceed ItiO acres in area. 



On discovering a mineral deposit any person may obtain a mining location, 

 upon marlving 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 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 farther sum of $50 to cover the cost of survey, 

 obtain a patent for said claim as provided in the said Mining Regulations. 



Copies of tkn Regulations laai/ be obtained uijoii application to thn 

 Department of the Ihierior, 



Deputy of the Minister of the Interior. 



Department of t\\% Interior, 

 Ottawa, Canada, December 19th, 1887 



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