Natural resources of Quebec

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Identifikator:: 1796289558

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-181093

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Natural resources of Quebec

Edition:: Rev. ed.

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Natural resources intelligence service

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 132 p; illus., maps

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. Minerals

Collection:: Economics Books

)0 NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC tains about 80 per cent of water but when this is removed the residue may constitute a satisfactory fuel. The possibilities of the use of Canadian peat as fuel were exhaustively studied by a special committee, whose conclusions were published by the Department of Mines, Ottawa, in 1925.% None of the bogs in the province of Quebec are at present being worked. These bogs constitute a valuable reserve asset. Mining Laws.—The Provincial Government disposes of the mining rights on all Crown lands, and on private lands of which the surface rights nave been granted by the Government since 1880. To acquire mining rights on such lands, Crown lands as well as private, a miner’s certificate must be obtained from the Department of Colonization, Mines and Fisheries, at Quebec, at a cost of $10. The bearer of this certificate is allowed to stake five claims of 40 acres each, on land of which the mining rights belong to the Crown. These claims may be held for twelve months without payment of any dues. At the end of the twelve months a mining license, good for one year, must be taken out, for which a payment of 50 cents per acre is required, and a registration fee of $10. This allows the licensee to make a thorough prospecting of the land before buying outright. There are, however, certain assessment works which must be performed, viz., twenty-five days’ labour during the first year and twenty-five days a year thereafter on each forty acres. The mining license may be, renewed yearly. At any time after the staking of the claims, a mining concession covering the land may be applied for by paying $5 an acre and furnishing a survey, made according to the requirements of the law. A preliminary title of ownership is then issued, but the patent for the land is issued only on fulfilling the express conditions that the purchaser shall bona fide commence the mining of the minerals therein contained within two years from the date of the purchase, and that during such delay, the purchaser shall, in such working, spend for every section or lot of one hundred acres, a sum of not less than one thousand dollars. It is to be noticed that the mining law requires actual bona fide mining work, such as shaft sinking, opening of underground workings, adits, showing an earnest beginning of the exploitation of the mineral deposits before the issuance of the patents. This is in order to guard against land being taken up, under the provisions of the mining law. for purposes other than mining. The Quebec Bureau of Mines will supply all information relative to mines, mineral resources, and mining regulations of the province of Quebec on request addressed to the Honourable the Minister of Coloniz- ation, Mines and Fisheries, Quebec. Bent Tes Wav bo Uses by B. F. Haanel, Mines Branch. Department of Mines, Ottawa.

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