A Quarry Permit for the removal of a quarriable substance from a Crown quarry site is generally intended for commercial use (i.e. contractors and companies obtaining quarry material for public sale. Application is made either; at an Natural Resources and Energy Development District Ranger Office where it is reviewed and then forwarded to the Minerals and Resource Development Branch for further processing, or directly at the Minerals and Resource Development Branch where it will be distributed to the appropriate District Rangers office for review prior to approval. If an application is approved, a quarry permit for an existing quarry site is typically issued within 1-2 weeks, while a quarry permit for a proposed new quarry site will typically be issued within 3-4 weeks.
Information pertaining to a quarry permit:
- applicant shall pay non-refundable application fee ($10.00/quarry site), at the time of application
- applies to extraction from existing quarry sites or proposed new quarry sites
- there is no maximum extraction volume limit (though quarry site reserves and active permit extraction volumes will factor into approval/denial of new applications)
- a quarry permit is valid for the time specified in an approval, however in no case shall it exceed the 31st day of December of the year for which it is issued
- a quarry permit holder shall pay royalty ($0.25/tonne) on the total amount of material requested/approved, at the time of issue (a new permit is required for every year of extraction)
- royalties are due and payable semi-annually on or before the twentieth day of July (on material volume removed between Jan 1st-Jun 30th) and the twentieth day of January (on material volume removed between Jul 1st-Dec 31st) in each year
- only the permittee is authorized to remove material from a quarry site; a permittee cannot transfer their permit or authorize others to remove material under that permit
- a quarry permit does not provide the permit holder with exclusive use to the quarry site
- all quarry operations are to be conducted in compliance with the Crown Land Quarries Policy