This causes some problems/conflicts between the surface rights owner and the mineral claimants, especially if their claims are located on private property or the surface rights are otherwise encumbered. When I owned my BC ranch, which included the surface rights on a total of about 30,000 acres counting private land, Agricultural leases, woodlot, and grazing leases, I was constantly being asked to approve what the mineral claimants intended to do to the surface in order to satisfy their annual upgrade/improvement requirements. I was pretty easy going as long as they cleaned up their messes before leaving and did not leave any structures on the surface, and left all the gates like they found them when coming and going…. and they were always very respectful of that.
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