LAND CONSTRAINTS Alberta Energy and Minerals

Non-Crown mineral ownership

Lands where minerals are not owned by the Alberta Crown (freehold, federal, CPR).

Freehold minerals need private deals and carry freehold mineral tax instead of Crown royalty.

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COMMODITIES IT DISCRIMINATES (34)

What this layer helps you find

Crude bitumen (oil sands)Conventional, tight & heavy multilateral oil Natural gas & condensate (Montney, Duvernay, Deep Basin)Ethane, propane & NGL feedstocks Coalbed methane Metallurgical (coking) coal Thermal coal Helium Geothermal heat & power CO2 pore space (carbon storage)Sulphur (by-product)Hydrogen (blue, gas-derived)Lithium (oilfield brines)Potash Salt (halite) & brine caverns Silica sand Limestone, dolomite, cement & lime Sand & gravel aggregate Iron & vanadium (Clear Hills ironstone)Uranium Diamonds Base metals & Ni-Cu-PGE (Shield and carbonate MVT)Rare earth elements & coal-ash critical metals Titanium & zirconium (oil sands heavy minerals)Vanadium, nickel & scandium from bitumen petcoke Gold Magnesium Sodium sulphate & saline-lake evaporites Bentonite, clay & shale Gypsum & anhydrite Peat (horticultural)Ammonite shell (ammolite)Phosphate Building & dimension stone

PROVENANCE

Where the figures rest

No Survey Data Registry row is linked yet.

Survey Data Registry · API

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