[news] Land claims rush greets new online system

[Resist!ca]

Rights to more B.C. land acquired in past two weeks than during all of last year Vancouver Sun | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 A new Internet-based system for staking mineral claims has triggered an exploration rush in B.C. Using keystrokes instead of hammers and stakes, miners have acquired rights to more land during the past two weeks than they did through all of last year. The provincial ministry of energy and mines quietly launched the system, called Mineral Titles Online, on Jan. 12. By the time it was formally announced on Jan. 20, the website had already attracted 2.56 million hits and processed 3,110 claims representing 1.2 million hectares. By comparison, in 2004, the best year for exploration in the last 13, the industry laid claim to 1.1 million hectares.

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