How To Guides - Mineral Titles Publications

Last updated on March 25, 2025

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

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