What is the meaning of the word "minerals" in the context of mining legislation?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Western Industrial Clay Products Ltd. v. Keeping, 1995 CanLII 225 (BC SC):
19 These further pronouncements appear in Lord Provost v. Farie, and have been adopted and applied in subsequent Canadian decisions: "Mines" and "minerals" are not definite terms: they are susceptible of limitation or expansion, according to the intention with which they are used. ... the word "minerals", when used in a legal document, must be understood in its widest signification unless there be something in the context or the nature of the case to control its meaning. In its widest signification [the word "minerals"] probably means every inorganic substance forming part of the crust of the earth, other than the layer of soil which sustains vegetable life.
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