M-13.1, r. 2 - Mining Regulation

Section 82 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

82. The report on sampling work and on work to open a face shall present the objective of the work carried out and shall include the following information:

(1)  the observed or measured geological data;

(2)  where applicable, the description of the sampling and verification methods used, including the sampling method and the method for verifying the samplings;

(3)  where applicable, the analytical results, the verification procedures for those analyses and the results of the verifications;

(4)  where applicable, the description of the various quality control methods and the manner in which the results were compiled.

The report on sampling work and on work to open a face shall also include, as schedules, the following elements:

(1)  the plans and maps established to a scale that makes it possible to locate the work and identify the geological information;

(2)  where applicable, the analysis certificates giving the complete results obtained for each sample whose number corresponds to that indicated on the plans and maps and the certificates giving all the verification results for the samplings and analyses.

The report shall be signed by a qualified professional under whose supervision the sampling work was carried out where the amount spent for all the work, declared and reported during a given term, exceeds $5,000 per mining right, and shall include the work declaration form, duly completed, supplied by the Minister. Where the amount spent for all the work does not exceed $5,000 per mining right, the report may, as for the work, be presented on the form entitled “Simplified mining work report”.

The report shall also be signed by a qualified professional under whose supervision the work to open a face was carried out where the amount spent for all the work, declared and reported during a given term, exceeds $10,000 per mining right, and shall include the work declaration form, duly completed, supplied by the Minister. Where the amount spent for all the work does not exceed $10,000 per mining right, the report may, as for the work, be presented on the form entitled “Simplified mining work report”.

The analysis certificates referred to in subparagraph 2 of the second paragraph shall be dated and signed by the person in charge of the laboratory where the analyses were carried out.

The amount of the work to open a face for sampling shall be calculated regardless of the fact that it may have been carried out as prospecting work.

O.C. 1042-2000, s. 82.