7. Rights in or over tailings belong to the holder of the mining lease or mining concession.
At the expiry of the mining lease or of a right under section 239 or on the abandonment or revocation of the mining lease or mining concession, rights in or over the tailings belong to the owner of the soil on which the tailings have been deposited with his consent.
1987, c. 64, s. 7; 1988, c. 9, s. 8.