55. No claim holder shall be entitled as such to extract or ship mineral substances, except such quantities as are necessary for analysis, assay or study.
Nevertheless, the Minister may authorize him, on such conditions as he may prescribe, to extract and ship, each year, to any ore-treatment mill situated in Québec, a quantity of crude ore not exceeding three hundred metric tonnes.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 34, s. 57; 1977, c. 60, s. 70.