Beginning April 4, prospectors will be allowed to return to 20 townships or portions of townships in the Teme-Augama Anishnabai (TAA) land claim area in the Temagami Lake area of northern Ontario.
The announcement was made by Gilles Pouliot, provincial minister of northern development and mines.
The townships were part of a larger package of more than 130 townships withdrawn from prospecting and claim-staking in 1978 because of the TAA land claim and caution. These 20 townships are not covered by the land caution. The reopening will be the third since April, 1990, when certain of the so-called “fringe” lands were returned to active exploration. In early 1992, the second reopening saw TAA lift its caution from the townships of James, Best, Strathy and Cassels.
The 20 townships affected are Baden, Bannockburn, Cairo, Doon, Kimberly, Raymond, Smyth, Cane, Janes, Gibbons, Montrose, Powell, Midlothian, Yarrow, Hammell, Crerar, Haentschel, Bryce, Rankin and Mond.
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