How To Guides - Mineral Titles Publications

A listing of various procedural guides for conducting mineral titles business.

• Download from the BC Geographic Warehouse (BCGW)

Mineral Titles spatial data is publicly available to download from the BC Geographic Warehouse (PDF) using the BC Data Catalogue. 

• Tenure/Title Overlap Report (TOR)

  • Understanding the Tenure/Title Overlap Report (TOR) (PDF) that is automatically generated and emailed to the recorded holder upon successful registration of a new title.
  • Using the TOR to understand Federal Transfer of Administration and Control Interests (PDF)

• Landowner notification

Information, guidelines and procedures for Free Miners, mineral titles holders, and landowners about the Landowner Notification notice requirements for mining activities on private land and Land Act Leases.

• Map creation for physical work reports

Step-by-step instructions on how to create a map for your physical work report using

• the MTO CWM web map viewer

• Creating spatial files

• Instructions on how to use the Integrated Land Resource Registry (ILRR) to create KML files for use in Google Earth (PDF)
• Instructions on how to create spatial files (shapefiles, KML, and Geomark) using iMapBC and GeoMark services (PDF)

• Statusing mineral lands

Instructions on statusing mineral lands using the Integrated Land Resource Registry (ILRR).

• Mineral titles and other parcels of land

Determining overlaps of mineral titles with a parcel of land