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Details:
Legacy MiDA Mineral, Placer and Coal tenures
(before January 12, 2005) and Mineral and Placer Mineral
Titles Online (MTO) tenures (after January 12, 2005) are
displayed on this map. Crown granted two
post claims are available in raster format for downloading or viewing. To access these
maps turn on the Crown Grant Download theme and double click on the map area of interest.
The page that appears in the lower frame will give you the option to download one of the
two possible half sheets for use in some graphics program OR to view the maps
interactively and integrated with other MapPlace information. When you select the
interactive viewing a new window will appear with the Crown Grant raster data displayed
and other information can then be added. This map is in UTM83 projection so caution must
be exercised as one nears the UTM zone boundary. A
Mineral Titles Archive group is available with March 2000 and May 2001
data. The Mineral Titles Online grid is available below 1:60K scale,
with labels at 1:20K scale. NOTE: MTO
Titles information
provided to MapPlace is now current to the previous day.
Please see Mineral
Tenure Notice.
View
Mineral Titles Map
Updates:
 | May 14, 2007: Mineral Titles Archive layers
created for January 2001 to 2007. |
| February 19, 2007: Coal
Tenures are now available from the Land Resource Data Warehouse and are
displayed with the MTO layers. Legacy Mineral, Placer and Coal tenures
(before January 12, 2005) have been removed from the other maps but are
still available on the Mineral Titles Map. |
| November 22, 2007: How to
Subset MTO data: An excel table can be created with tenure
number and claim name from polygon selections of the MTO layer and saved
to your computer. Use the
MTO downloadable file (updated monthly) from
the Geospatial Downloads. The
MTO shape component can be filtered from the province wide MTO file by
linking the excel table to the downloadable MTO shape file. If staking
had occurred within the month, these claims could be 'flagged' and
viewed on the MapPlace and added to their GIS file. |
| October 31, 2006: Advisory to all MTO clients
on Internet Explorer 7. Please note that the map viewers that MTO and
several other government services use are not currently compatible with
this recently released Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).
Problems with the map will therefore occur if you use Internet Explorer
7 with MTO. Thus, if you double click on a tenure in
MapPlace to link to the MTO Viewer report, then click View Tenure to
link to the MTO Map Viewer, you will get an Unsupported Browser message
if using IE7. |
| October 12, 2006, added Survey Layers (Tantalis)
group with Crown Grants, Survey Parcels, Survey Parcel Right of Ways,
Surveyed Transport, Integrated Cadastral Fabric (ICI), No Staking Reserve
and Placer Reserves Sites.
Survey Parcels are available at 1:100K scale and ICI at 1:20K scale. The
layers are linked to reports with Legal Descriptions and PIN Number. See
Metadata on Survey Parcels,
with link to Tantalis
GATOR System for more information.
Reserve sites are linked to
Reserves by Year. |
|
July 7, 2006: Added New Mineral Titles tools to
Exploration Assistant, to show tenures by
Name, Owner ID, Anniversary Date, and Acquired Date. |
| May 15, 2006: Added Coal License
spatial file to Geospatial Download page.
The file is in Shape format in the Mineral Tenure row of the table, and
is time-stamped (May 11, 2006). |
| April 3, 2006: added
Environmental Assessment Office
Layer group with
EAO Projects separated into Mining, Energy and Other themes. The
layers and projects are linked to reports. |
| March 23, 2006: added Wildlife Layers group
with Wildlife Habitat Area,
Ungulate
Winter Range and Guide Outfitter Areas layers and reports to Main
Maps. Reports
have links to LIBC Metadata at
Land Information BC
Discovery Service:
WHA Metadata,
UWR Metadata and
GOA Metadata. Layers are visible below 1:1 Million scale. |
| November 8, 2005: added Crown Grants (Survey Parcel as Mineral Claim)
layer, visible below 1:100K scale, to Crown Grant Raster maps. These
maps are connected by the Crown Grant Raster Index in the File Download
Layers group. A report is connected to the Crown Grants and includes PIN
Number, Type, Legal Description and Status. The Crown Grant Rasters were
last updated December 2000. |
| June 13, 2005, added new MTO Report, linked to Mineral
Titles Online (MTO) layers. |
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May 5, 2005: added Rock Geochemistry layers to the BCGS Geology,
Exploration Assistant and Mineral Titles Maps. These layers
represent the data in
Geofile 2005-14.
Two reports are available with these layers: Rock Excel Dump and Rock
Sample Report that can be sorted by column by clicking the linked column
headings. |
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February 10, 2005: added
Mineral Titles Online (MTO) tenure layers. Double-click the tenure to
link to a report. Updates will be current to previous day. |
| Effective January 12, 2005 all current
mineral and placer titles online data must be obtained from the Mineral
Titles Online website: http://www.mtonline.gov.bc.ca/. The Mineral Titles Search and
Statistics website (http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/mida)
will continue to provide non-current mineral and placer title data that was
recorded on or before January 11, 2005. Mineral and placer tenure
information, statistics, maps, indices, and all searches from this site are
out-of-date and will not be updated beyond January 11, 2005. Current Coal
title data will continue to be available from this website. |
|
December 8, 2004: Added Gold Commissioner
Offices layers with links to
Government Agent
pages. |
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November 29,
2004: View Mineral Tenure Online electronic maps using the MTO
Browser at www.mtonline.gov.bc.ca.
MTO utilizes the ESRI Internet Mapping Framework (IMF); tutorials in using
this map utility can be viewed at
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/imf/HelpSystem. The new MTO Browser will
not become the production map until MTO goes live on January 12, 2005.
For more information see
Map
Selection Updates. |
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September 28,
2004: The Mineral Tenure Online Grid available below 1:60K scale, with labels at 1:20K scale. |
Double clicking on a tenure will link you
to Mineral Titles Branch's complete database. You can move the divider between the two
windows to increase the visible area of either window. NOTE Generally
mineral tenure graphics are available within 2 months of filing date. The information in
Mineral Titles Registry System (MIDA) on the WEB will be current and the official maps residing with the
Gold Commissioner
will also be current.
The Mineral Titles
Web Site has enhance functionality with the consolidation of all available search fields onto one
page thus allowing searches that combine multiple fields. For
example, it is now possible to search for all titles in the Kamloops
mining division that are owned by Cominco. The most significant new
feature is the addition of all mineral title maps in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format.
The web address is: http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/mida/index.html.
Grid layers link to Mineral Titles PDF maps.
A 1:250K grid layer links to Mineral Title PDF Map Selection reports
enabling access to 1:20K or 1:50K scale PDF maps, depending on
coverage. A 1:20K grid layer, which is visible below 1:2M scale,
links directly to the 1:20K PDF maps. To use, select either grid layer,
located in the File Download Layers group, and double click on the desired
grid. Adobe Reader must be installed for this feature. See note
on Printing
Problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 5.
A Mineral Titles Claim Name layer, visible at 1:50K
scale, is also available in the Mineral Titles Layers group.
A Mineral Titles Archive group displays BC Claims
by Owner, as of April 2004, visible at 500K scale; and Mineral Titles as
of March 2000 (visible below 1:1M scale) and May 2001 (visible below 1:3M
scale). No reports are attached to the data.
A Zoom Goto Mineral Tenure Number is
available. Right click on the map, select Zoom, Zoom Goto, Category:
Mineral Tenure Number. Enter the number in Location and click OK. Turn on the
Mineral Title Layer and the tenure will be displayed. Double clicking on the tenure
will link to
MIDA for a report on the tenure. You can also adjust your view with the
Zoom tools. Due to the large size of the Tenure datasource, the Zoom Goto may take up
to a minute.
Significant links from
Mineral Titles Branch and other
links:
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This page was last updated
September 12, 2007.
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