• Exploring for Minerals in Alberta

• List of Acts and Regulations
• Key legislation includes:
  -- Metallic & Industrial Minerals Tenure Regulation
  -- Metallic & Industrial Minerals Exploration Regulation

• Information Letters

• Information Bulletins 

• Guidelines for Prospectors
• Exploration Toolkit

• Online Maps
  Mineral dispostion maps in colour PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.  Default print size 30 x 60 inch.  Updated overnight. 

• Interactive Maps
  Mineral dispostition information available trhough and interactive mapping program.  This program allows you to select location, scale and map features and to conduct basic searches.  Updated overnight.  

• Introduction to ATS - for legal land description
  (Meridian, Township, Range, Section, Legal Subdivision)

• Conversion Tool

• LSAS searches - Information on requesting and conducting searches.

Alberta Geosciences
Information

• Alberta Geological Survey (AGS)
  Can buy or view public geoscience information such as AGS geoscience reports, Mineral Assessment Reports, geology maps and drill core samples.

• Exploration Toolkit
• Placer Mining Toolkit
• Ammonite Shell Toolkit
• Contacts
• Related Links

• Limited prospecting and geophysical surveying is permitted if mineral rights are available and there will be no significant disturbance.
• Obtain consent from any leaseholder or landowner.
• As a safety precaution, inform the local forestry or public lands office of your presence and purpose on Crown Land.
• Ammonite shell collecting,placer mining and recreational gold panningare not considered prospecting activities in Alberta.

• Apply to Coal and Mineral Development, Alberta Energy, for a Crown Metallic and Industrial Mineral Permit tp explore in a specified area.
• Contact Land Administration, Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, for approval to use mechanized equipment and/or disturb land surface during prospecting.
• Meet work expenditure and assessment reporting requirements to maintain Metallic and Industrial Mineral Permits.