Areas for Notification of Class 1 Mining Activity

Areas for Notification of Class 1 Mining Activity The Yukon government amended the Quartz Mining Act and the Placer Mining Actin December 2013, to establish the authority to designate areas where government notification of Class 1 exploration activities is required.Before these amendments to the mining acts and regulation came into effect, prospectors undertaking Class 1 activities were not required to inform government of their work. Class 1 exploration activities generally have low potential to cause adverse environmental effects.A Notification is required if an exploration program is categorized as class 1 (OIC 2003/59 and OIC 2003/64) and located either on settlement land (category A or B) or within a class 1 notification area (OIC 2013/221). This layer show current class 1 exploration program that are allowed to proceed. 2024-09-26 Government of Yukon geomatics.help@gov.yk.ca Form DescriptorsNature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologyQuartzminingplacerClass 1NotificationDownloadable DataGovernment information ISO 19139 Geographic Information - MetadataHTML https://geoweb.gov.yk.ca/geoportal/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B1DE8A0F1-AC88-43DF-9BFB-40B3AFA0794A%7D Original metadata (https://open.yukon.ca)HTML https://open.yukon.ca/data/datasets/areas-notification-class-1-mining-activity ISO 19139 Geographic Information - MetadataXML https://geoweb.gov.yk.ca/geoportal/rest/document?id=%7B1DE8A0F1-AC88-43DF-9BFB-40B3AFA0794A%7D FTP Directoryother https://map-data.service.yukon.ca/GeoYukon/Mining/Areas_for_Notification_of_Class_1_Mining_Activity/

The Yukon government amended the Quartz Mining Act and the Placer Mining Actin December 2013, to establish the authority to designate areas where government notification of Class 1 exploration activities is required.Before these amendments to the mining acts and regulation came into effect, prospectors undertaking Class 1 activities were not required to inform government of their work. Class 1 exploration activities generally have low potential to cause adverse environmental effects.A Notification is required if an exploration program is categorized as class 1 (OIC 2003/59 and OIC 2003/64) and located either on settlement land (category A or B) or within a class 1 notification area (OIC 2013/221). This layer show current class 1 exploration program that are allowed to proceed.

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