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Definitions

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In this Law —
"Crown Land" includes all land vested in the Governor under the Governor (Vesting of Lands) Law (1998 Revision);
"to mine" means intentionally to search for, extract or win minerals;
"minerals" does not include mineral oils, gypsum and phosphates, and does not include material, such as clay, sand, limestone, sandstone or other stone, commonly used for the purpose of road making or for building or for the manufacture of any article used in the construction of buildings where such material does not contain any valuable metal or precious stone in economically workable quantities, but includes —
metalliferous minerals containing aluminium, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cerium, chromium, cobalt, columbium, copper, iron, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, potassium, sodium, tantalium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, zinc, zirconium and all other substances of a similar nature to any of them, and all ores containing them and combinations of any of them with each other or with any other substance, excepting only those that occur in the form of precious minerals;
combustible carbonaceous minerals, including —
coal; and
lignite, which includes brown coal and any coal which the Governor in Council may prescribe to be lignite if he is satisfied that the estimated average ash content is so high or the estimated average thermal value is so low that such coal may properly be classed as lignite;
other minerals, including those used for their abrasive or refractory qualities and asbestos, barytes, bauxite, china clay, fuller's earth, graphite, laterite, marble, mica, nitrates, pipeclay, pottery clay, potash, quartz crystals, salt, slate, soda, sulphur, talc and all other substances of a similar nature to any of them; and
precious minerals, including —
precious stones and semi-precious stones including amber, amethyst, beryl, cat's eye, chrysolite, garnet, caymanite and all other semi-precious stones, whether of the same kind as those enumerated or not;
precious metals; and
all radio-active minerals;
"owner" means owner of an estate in fee simple in the land in relation to which the expression is used;
"precious metals" means gold, silver, or metal of the platinoid group, in unmanufactured state, and all ores containing such metal, but not including ores containing any such metal in combination with another mineral where such metal cannot be worked apart from such mineral and the value of such metal is less than the cost of producing both the metal and the mineral;
"precious stones" means diamonds, emeralds, opals, rubies, sapphires, turquoises, and such other stones as may be prescribed to be precious stones for the purpose of this Law; and
"royalties" means royalties payable to the Government in accordance with any law or regulations governing mines and mining.

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Crown Landto minemineralsownerprecious metalsprecious stonesroyalties

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