M-13.1, r. 2 - Regulation respecting mineral substances other than petroleum, natural gas and brine

Section 69 Disposition versions

2015-12-31

69. The holder of a claim shall carry out one or more of the following types of work:

(1)  technical evaluation studies under the supervision of a qualified professional;

(2)  exploration and examination of peat-bogs, outcrops of rock and boulders;

(3)  geological, geophysical or geochemical survey work for mining exploration purposes under the supervision of a qualified professional, including line cutting required for the surveys where such work is declared and reported with the results of the survey for which it was performed;

(4)  rock stripping and excavating in overburden and in rock;

(5)  sampling, including the accompanying analyses, and work to open a face for study purposes on land containing building stone;

(6)  drill-holes bored in order to obtain cores, sludge or rock fragments and the analyses of the cores, sludge or fragments and the measure and recording of data along the drilled holes under the supervision of a qualified professional;

(7)  exploration and tests on samples from the land subject to a mining right where such exploration or tests are carried out by a laboratory, a testing station or a team under the supervision of a qualified professional with the aim of contributing to the discovery or improvement of technical methods for exploration;

(8)  technico-economic studies on pre-feasibility or feasibility under the supervision of a qualified professional;

(9)  surveying the perimeter of the land subject to a mining right and locating the parcels of lands subject to a block of claims performed in order to convert them into or replace them by map designated claims;

(9.1)  characterization work on a peat-bog carried out as part of an environmental assessment study;

(9.2)  drainage work preparatory to the operation of a peat-bog;

(9.3)  work for the progressive rehabilitation of a peat-bog;

(9.4)  survey, inventory and wildlife and flora research work under the supervision of a qualified professional for the purposes of characterization on a peat-bog;

(9.5)  hydrogeological studies under the supervision of a qualified professional, including survey work;

(10)  (subparagraph revoked);

(11)  rehabilitation and restoration work carried out under the supervision of a qualified professional, except work that, where required, was not carried out in accordance with the requirements of a rehabilitation and restoration plan imposed by law; rehabilitation and restoration work must however have been carried out on land for which types of work referred to in subparagraph 2, 4 or 5 have already been declared in a work report and where the Minister did not refuse the work pursuant to section 74 of the Act;

(12)  protective measures prescribed in Division II of Chapter IX of this Regulation and, where there is cessation of mining activities, protection measures necessary to prevent any damage that may result from that cessation.

Work referred to in subparagraphs 2, 4 and 5 of the first paragraph shall be performed under the supervision of a qualified professional in the cases provided for in sections 73, 81 and 82.

O.C. 1042-2000, s. 69; O.C. 1065-2015, s. 32.

2012-09-01

69. The holder of a claim, of a mining exploration licence, of a mining concession referred to in section 119 of the Act, or of a licence to explore for surface mineral substances shall carry out one or more of the following types of work:

(1)  technical evaluation studies under the supervision of a qualified professional;

(2)  exploration and examination of outcrops of rock and boulders;

(3)  geological, geophysical or geochemical survey work for mining exploration purposes under the supervision of a qualified professional, including line cutting required for the surveys where such work is declared and reported with the results of the survey for which it was performed;

(4)  rock stripping and excavating in overburden and in rock;

(5)  sampling, including the accompanying analyses, and work to open a face for study purposes on land containing building stone;

(6)  drill-holes bored in order to obtain cores, sludge or rock fragments and the analyses of the cores, sludge or fragments and the measure and recording of data along the drilled holes under the supervision of a qualified professional;

(7)  exploration and tests on samples from the land subject to a mining right where such exploration or tests are carried out by a laboratory, a testing station or a team under the supervision of a qualified professional with the aim of contributing to the discovery or improvement of technical methods for exploration;

(8)  technico-economic studies on pre-feasibility or feasibility under the supervision of a qualified professional;

(9)  surveying the perimeter of the land subject to a mining right and locating the parcels of lands subject to a block of claims performed in order to convert them into or replace them by map designated claims;

(10)  for the purposes of section 119 of the Act, mining carried out on the land subject to a mining concession;

(11)  rehabilitation and restoration work, except work that, where required, was not carried out in accordance with the requirements of a rehabilitation and restoration plan imposed by law; rehabilitation and restoration work must however have been carried out on land for which types of work referred to in subparagraph 2, 4, 5 or 10 have already been declared in a work report and where the Minister did not refuse the work pursuant to section 74, 97, 120 or 138 of the Act;

(12)  protective measures prescribed in Division II of Chapter IX of this Regulation and, where there is cessation of mining activities, protection measures necessary to prevent any damage that may result from that cessation.

Work referred to in subparagraphs 2, 4 and 5 of the first paragraph shall be performed under the supervision of a qualified professional in the cases provided for in sections 73, 81 and 82.

O.C. 1042-2000, s. 69.