Interesting. Thanks for the replies. I suppose the reason the Crown owns so much of the mineral rights is due to the vast majority of our mineral rights being located in remote areas where nobody really lives.
I wonder how many private landowners actually own the mineral rights for their own land. Is there a number of years that you had to own the land before the mineral rights were granted? I know my family never owned the mineral rights to our land, and it was in our name from about 1950 on.
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