North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

The age of claim staking - with all of its excitement, intrigue and even hand-to-hand combat - is over in British Columbia.

Now you can acquire mineral rights without even leaving your office.

The provincial government has joined two other Canadian provinces, Quebec and Newfoundland, in abandoning the centuries old tradition of actually driving stakes into the ground to mark out a claim and int...