Tailings Disposal Area, SR 270/69

1 SR 270/69 MINERAL RESOURCES General Regulations (Tailings Disposal Area) under The Mineral Resources Act being Saskatchewan Regulations 270/69 (effective October 27, 1969). NOTE: This consolidation is not official. Amendments have been incorporated for convenience of reference and the original statutes and regulations should be consulted for all purposes of interpretation and application of the law. In order to preserve the integrity of the original statutes and regulations, errors that may have appeared are reproduced in this consolidation. 2 SR 270/69 MINERAL RESOURCES Table of Contents 1 Tailings Disposal Area 2 Permission required to deposit tailings 3 Same 4 Exclusive right to deposit tailings 5 Tailings property of depositor 6 Separation of tailings 7 Royalties to crown 3 SR 270/69 MINERAL RESOURCES SASKATCHEWAN REGULATION 270/69 under The Mineral Resources Act SCHEDULE Tailings Disposal Area 1 The following lands and lands covered by water are set aside as a Tailings Disposal Area: (a) All those portions of Townships 66 and 67 in Range 30, West of the Principal Meridian, in the Province of Saskatchewan, which are shown as parcels 1, 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 on a plan of the Tailings Disposal Area signed by J. Waldron, Saskatchewan Land Surveyor, on the 20th day of June, 1939, and approved by the Controller of Surveys on the 22nd day of September, 1939, the said plan being filed in the Surveys Branch of the Department of Natural Resources, Regina, Saskatchewan, as No. F613; (b) All those portions of Townships 66 and 67, in Range 30, West of the Principal Meridian, in the Province of Saskatchewan, which are shown as parcels 7, 7A and 7B on a plan of survey signed by J. Waldron, Saskatchewan Land Surveyor, on the 13th day of September, 1941, and approved by the Controller of Surveys on the 24th day of January, 1942, the said plan being filed in the Surveys Branch of the Department of Natural Resources, Regina, Saskatchewan, as No. F240; (c) All those portions of Townships 66 and 67, in Range 30, West of the Principal Meridian, in the Province of Saskatchewan, which are shown as parcels C and D, being an addition to Tailings Disposal Area in the vicinity of Flin Flon, Manitoba, on a plan of survey signed by J. Waldron, Saskatchewan Land Surveyor, on the 28th day of July, 1969, and approved by the Controller of Surveys on the 11th day of September, 1969, the said plan being filed in the Surveys Branch of the Department of Natural Resources, Regina, Saskatchewan, as No. 69‑PA‑11949. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s1. Permission required to deposit tailings 2 No person shall deposit any tailings, slimes or other waste products in or upon the said area without the written permission of the Minister of Mineral Resources. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s2. Same 3 The Minister of Mineral Resources may upon the application of a holder or owner of a mineral claim grant such holder or owner permission to deposit tailings, slimes or other waste products upon such part of the said area not covered by water as the minister may designate or upon any part of the said area not covered by water, as the minister may determine; and he may also, subject to the provisions of any statute governing the matter, grant such holder or owner permission to discharge tailings, slimes or other waste products into such part of the water in the said area as the minister may designate or into any part of the water in the said area, as the minister may determine. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s3. 4 SR 270/69 MINERAL RESOURCES Exclusive right to deposit tailings 4 The Minister of Mineral Resources may also upon the application of a holder or owner of a mineral claim grant such holder or owner the exclusive right to deposit tailings, slimes or other waste products upon such part of the said area not covered by water as the minister may designate or upon any part of the said area not covered by water, as the minister may determine; and he may also, subject to the provisions of any statute governing the matter, grant such holder or owner the exclusive right to discharge tailings, slimes or waste products into such part of the water in the said area as the minister may designate or into any part of the water in the said area, as the minister may determine. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s4. Tailings property of depositor 5 Tailings, slimes or other waste products deposited in the said area shall not become part of the land upon which the same are deposited or to which the same may be carried by the natural flow of water or by drainage, but shall remain the property of the person depositing the same. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s5. Separation of tailings 6 Every person shall keep the tailings, slimes or other waste products deposited by him separate from those deposited by any other person. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s6. Royalties to crown 7(1) The Minister of Mineral Resources may also grant permission to any person to enter upon the said area and to dig, work, mine, procure, treat, process and carry away the tailings deposited upon the said area or discharged into any part of the water in the said area by such person or belonging to him. (2) There shall be paid to the Crown a royalty on each ton of such tailings treated or processed during any calendar year and the person to whom permission is granted under subsection (1) shall be liable to the Crown for the payment of such royalty. (3) The amount of such royalty shall be determined in accordance with sub‑sections (1), (2) (3), (4), (6) and (7) of section 99 of The Mineral Disposition Regulations, 1961, as the said subsections may be amended, revised or substituted from time to time. (4) Notwithstanding anything herein contained, no royalty shall be payable on any tailings that were not produced from ore originally mined in Saskatchewan, and when such tailings or part thereof have been mixed or intermingled with tailings produced from ore originally mined in Saskatchewan the portion of the tailings on which royalty shall be payable shall be as nearly as possible in the ratio in which they were produced from ore originally mined in Saskatchewan and from ore originally mined outside Saskatchewan. 7 Nov 69 SR 270/69 s7. REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE QUEEN’S PRINTER Copyright©1997