Nova Scotia Natural Resources

Registry of Mineral and Petroleum Titles

John MacNeil

November 13, 2013

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 880,000 Acres of land under Licence for mineral exploration

• Over 2 million acres under licence for onshore petroleum exploration

The Mineral and Petroleum Registry

• Exploration work must be done each year to maintain licence and must be submitted and approved before the licence is renewed

• In the last 8 years this work ranged between $3,743,728 and $15,035,159 per year

The Registry Modernization Project• Background

• Problems with existing manual system

• Benefits of new system

• Steps to implement new system

• Current Status

Old system

• Client Records• Applications

• Licences• Leases

Old system

• Manual map updates daily

• 500 mapsheets

Benefits of NovaROC

• 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

Steps to implement NovaROC

Business Process and Requirements

Buy versus Build

Develop/Adapt application

Testing and Data Loading Delivery and Training Implementation of online rights management

August 26, 2013!

Learning to use NovaROC

Online Help

• Video tutorials

• Help manuals

Live Help• Call the Registry• Registry Kiosks

NovaROC User Interface

NovaROC Main Page

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: Review

Brookfield

Acquire a right sequence: 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 for a

live demo of