10.18. Persons or partnerships ceasing, for an indeterminate period, all activities that relate to their mining operation are deemed to alienate, at the time (in this paragraph referred to as the “time of the alienation”) that is immediately before the time the fiscal year in which those activities cease ends, in accordance with section 2.1, each of their properties of a class for proceeds of alienation equal to the lesser of the fair market value of the property at the time of the alienation and the capital cost of the property at that time.
Persons or partnerships resuming, at any time, their activities that relate to the mining operation referred to in the first paragraph are deemed to reacquire, at that time, each of the properties referred to in the first paragraph and owned by them at that time for a capital cost equal to the lesser of the fair market value of the property at that time and the proceeds of alienation of the property determined in accordance with the first paragraph.