Mineral Claim Surveys in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

Table of Contents

• Survey Instructions Home
• Part B - Agreements

  • B1 - Interdepartmental Agreements

    • B1-1 - Interdepartmental Agreement re Description of Canada Lands, 1955 (Excluding Indian Lands)
    • B1-2 - Interdepartmental Agreement with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development re Land Transactions on Reserve Lands, 2009
  • B2 - Intergovernmental Agreements

    • B2-1 - Intergovernmental Agreement with British Columbia Respecting Legal Surveys of Highways Through Indian Reserves and Sechelt Lands and Lands Being Transferred to Canada, 2003
    • B2-2 - Intergovernmental Agreement with the Province of Alberta re Town of Banff Incorporation Agreement, 1989
• Part C - Administrative Requirements

  • C1 - General Requirements and Procedures for Surveys
  • C2 - Surveys in the Northwest Territories
  • C3 - Surveys in Yukon
  • C4 - Surveys Offshore
  • C5 - Surveys of Indian Lands
  • C6 - Surveys of Lands Administered by Parks Canada
• Part D - Survey Standards

  • D1 - Official Surveys
  • D2 - Explanatory Plans
  • D3 - Strata Surveys
  • D4 - Condominium Surveys
  • D5 - Registration and Land Use Area Plans
  • D6 - Oil and Gas Surveys in Indian Reserves
  • D7 - Oil and Gas Surveys in the Territories and Offshore
  • D8 - Mineral Claim Surveys in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
  • D9 - Mineral Claim Surveys in Yukon
  • D10 - Field Monitoring of Exterior Boundaries and Interior Frameworks
  • D11 - Boundary Maintenance
  • D12 - Control Surveys
  • D13 - Basemapping
  • D14 - Land Descriptions
  • D15 - Survey Reports
  • D16 - As-built Surveys
  • D17 - Guidelines for the preparation of Legal Description Reports for the Individual First Nation Agreement under the First Nations Land Management Act
• Part E - Appendices

  • E1 - Glossary
  • E2 - Legal Principles for Surveys of Canada Lands
  • E3 - Guidelines for the Preparation of Plans
  • E4 - Accuracy Standard for Legal Surveys
  • E5 - Digital Spatial File Specifications
  • E6 - Instructions for Preparation of Compiled Plans of Consolidations of Yukon Titled Land

Effective from July 1981 (Version 1) to July 1981 (Version 2)

Archived Chapter

• [PDF 106KB]Chapter D8 - MINERAL CLAIM SURVEYS IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES

Specimen Plans

• [DJVU 54KB]Quartz mineral claims - Yukon
• [DJVU 31KB]Quartz mineral claim - NWT
• [DJVU 40KB]Quartz mineral claims perimeter survey - NWT