Mineral Titles Online

Mapping and Administrative updates including new logon screens, updated attributes for spatial data downloads, new resource and administrative layers for maps, print options, reserve site searching, Tenure Overlap report, and ability to upload work reports for exploration and development work registrations.

Detailed description of changes

Mapping and administrative updates including searching, FMC reports, history layer, erase markup tool, informative cell status display.

Detailed description of changes

December 2, 2008

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August 12, 2008

Section 6.7 of the Mineral Tenure Act describes where overlapping mineral title registrations are permitted. This section establishes that a mining lease is the only form of title that may occupy the area of a cell; no other forms of titles may overlap a mining lease. The MTO system now emails to the lease applicant, a list of cell key identifications from the lease application area that are overlapping an existing title.

Section 61 of the Mineral Tenure Act requires a client to notify the chief gold commissioner of a change in the holder's address. The MTO Free Miner Certificate Registration and Edit Client Information screens have been enhanced to allow for the entry and update of all client details. Please ensure that you take the time to update your information, especially your email address if you wish to receive event transaction confirmation notices as well as any special notices issued by Mineral Titles Branch.

Section 7(4) of the Mineral Tenure Act Regulation authorizes that "Exploration and development work conducted on a claim may be applied to adjoining claims or any claims in a sequence of adjoining claims". MTO has updated the claims listing display of Exploration and Development Work/Expiry date change event transactions to include the list of all contiguous claims, regardless of whether work was applied to them or not.

- Fixed the “Show Gator Details” link when identifying a survey parcel in the map viewer.

- Fixed the “Show Minfile Details” link when identifying a MinFile occurrence.

- Added the “MINFILE” layer of information to the map viewers.
- In “Exploration and Development/Expiry Date” event, the GPS Survey option as a work type has been removed in accordance with repeal of Section 20 of the regulations.
- Added new features to the Internet Mapping Framework (IMF) such as mark-up tools, search by attribute information, ability to customize shade colors of points, lines and polygons, ability to save your mapping session.
- Abandoned cells will not be available for registration of a new claim until midnight of the good to date of the abandon claim.
- Cells removed from a cell claim via the Reduction event, will not be available for registration of a new claim until midnight of the good to date of the reduced claim.

- Added hotlinks to more events to allow access to additional information for that event.

- Events added are: BSLI, BSLC, CEXT, CIL, CONV, ECUM, FORF, LAPP, LEXT, LISS, LPAY, RFUN, SOW.

- When searching free miners or recorded holders by name, the results are now displayed in "Last Name, First Name" format.
- Under the profile management event, the agent list is now in alphabetical order.
- Created a report found under the Reports tab to allow a client to see their free miner certificate history.
- Added "Logged in" identification  information under the current time clock
- Adjusted date for when the status of cells becomes open after an abandonment event is submitted.
- Moved the cell status information higher up on the list of information when using the Drill Down tool in the map viewer.

- Added Electoral Boundaries layer. 
- Upgrade the Interent Mapping Framework (IMF) from version 4.0.6 to version 5.0
- Added Analytical Tools and Markup Tools in map viewers.
- Lightened the default colour of the placer claim designated areas.
- Changed thickness of tenure boundary.
- Added additional paper sizes for printing maps through map viewers.
- Added UTM Coordinates to display in conjunction with mouse cursor movement in map viewers.
- Added North arrow to maps printed from viewers.