Nova Scotia Mineral Rights Database with Daily Updates

Nova Scotia's mineral rights database contains layers for exploration licences, special licences, leases, hydrocarbon storage-area licences, and non-mineral registrations. The database is maintained by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables and is updated nightly around 2:00 AM. An extraction date-time field identifies when information was pulled from the source NovaROC system.

Use Cases

• Mapping mineral exploration licence boundaries based on geospatial layers
• Tracking lease status changes for coal, salt, potash, or geothermal resources
• Analyzing land-use patterns for hydrocarbon storage areas
• Monitoring regulatory compliance for non-mineral registrations

Strengths

• Data is updated nightly, ensuring high recency
• Contains multiple distinct geospatial layers for different mineral rights entities
• Managed by the authoritative provincial government department

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Geoscience and Mines Branch

Collection Method

Developed from information contained in the NovaROC database.

Freshness

Updated nightly around 2:00 AM.

Geography

Nova Scotia, Canada