Nova Scotia Natural ResourcesMineral Resources Branch

Registry of Mineral and Petroleum Titles

John MacNeil

October 29, 2012

The Registry Modernization Project

The Registry of Mineral and Petroleum Titles

• About the Registry of Mineral and Petroleum Titles - ‘What we do’ –

• Current status of Rights

• The Registry Modernization Project

The Registry: Responsible for administration of Crown Mineral and Onshore Petroleum Rights

• Receives applications for mineral and petroleum rights and issues and registers licences or leases

• Maintains maps of current rights disposition

• Monitors exploration activities in Nova Scotia

• Provides information on past exploration and mining activities

The Mineral and Petroleum Registry

Current Status:

• Over 700,000 Acres of land under Licence for mineral exploration

• Almost 3 million acres under licence for onshore petroleum exploration

The Mineral and Petroleum Registry

Current Status:

• More than $11 million in exploration expenditures recorded this year (September 2012)

• 60 new prospectors registered (September 2011)

The Mineral and Petroleum Registry

• Exploration work must be done each year to maintain licence

• In 2009 this was $3,743,728

• In 2008 this was $15,035,159

This work must be approved before licence is renewed

The Registry Modernization Project• Background

• Problems with existing manual system

• Benefits of new system

• Steps to implement new system

• Current Status

Existing system

• Client Records• Applications

• Licences• Leases

Existing system

• Manual map updates daily

• 500 mapsheets

Existing system

• Paper-based with DOS-based database(1980’s)

• No Longer supported

Existing system

• Forms completed by hand or typewriter

Problems

• Slow processing

• Client and staff frustration

• Potential for errors

• Inability to quickly obtain current statistics

Benefits of new system

• Faster processing of applications

• Better service delivery

• Ability to analyze data in timely fashion

• Capability to deliver service over Internet

• Capability to accept Assessment Reports digitally

• Other Provinces already using similar tools

New System

Steps to implement new system

Business Process and Requirements

Buy versus Build

Develop/Adapt application

Testing and Data Loading Delivery and TrainingImplementation of online rights management

Project Timetable

• Back office system Go-Live Q1 2013

• Client (internet) system Go-live Q2 2013

NovaROC User Interface

NovaROC: Map Viewer Display of Mineral Rights

NovaROC: Search Page

NovaROC

NovaROC: Login screen

NovaROC: Main page

NovaROC: Acquire an Exploration Licence

NovaROC: (a. Right type Exploration Licence)

NovaROC: Acquire a right sequence: v. open map; select claims

By EL:06740 in Brookfield

Acquire a right sequence: vi. Review

Brookfield

Acquire a right sequence: vii.b Checkout for Online Payment

E-mail Confirmation of Transaction

NovaROC: Display map with claims that application has just been made. Pending EL # is 1467

The Mineral and Petroleum Registry Modernization Project

• Questions?

Please Drop by the Registry booth