Nunavut Mining Regulations

Marginal note:Priority

• 11 (1) If two or more applications for a prospecting permit are made in respect of a prospecting permit zone, the Mining Recorder must, in issuing a prospecting permit, give priority to

  • (a) firstly, applications presented in person at the office of the Mining Recorder on the first business day of November, in the order of their receipt;

  • (b) secondly, applications — other than those dealt with in paragraph (a) — received by the Mining Recorder before the second business day of November, in the order of their drawing from a lottery of those applications; and

  • (c) lastly, all other applications received after the first business day of November, in order of their receipt by the Mining Recorder, or, if the order of receipt of applications cannot be determined, then in the order of their drawing from a lottery of those applications.

• Marginal note:Issuance

  (2) The Mining Recorder must issue the prospecting permit as soon as possible after January 31 in the year following the receipt of the application.

• Marginal note:Identification number

  (3) The Mining Recorder must assign an identification number to each prospecting permit.

• Marginal note:Exclusion of claim from permit zone

  (4) The area covered by a prospecting permit must be modified by removing the area covered by a recorded claim within that zone if

  • (a) the claim was staked within the zone before the permit was issued; and

  • (b) the application to record the claim was made after the permit was issued.