Nova Scotia Mineral Rights Database with Daily Updates
Updated 2mo ago
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Description
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
License is OGL-CA-2.0; data is provided in HTML format.