Mineral exploration- and extraction permits

The data display areas covered with mineral permits for the Norwegian state’s minerals, according to the "Lov om erverv og utvinning av mineralressurser (mineralloven)" §7; the Minerals Act. The data set contains areas defining active exploration permits (UND) and extraction permits (UTV). The data set has overlapping surfaces; several mineral rights can be issued for the same geographical area, but then have different priorities.

The mineral Exploration or extraction permit with highest priority, i.e. the first applicant for the right, in a given area is determined by the date The Directorate of Mining with the Commissioner of Mines at Svalbard (DMF) received the application. This is recorded in the attribute InnsendtDato.

An exploration permit to the State’s minerals is awarded as a right to a defined area and not as a right to a specific deposit. The owner of an exploration permit with the best priority has the exclusive right to apply for an extraction permit following the Minerals Act § 29.

The validity of the exploration permits is 7 years from the best priority whereas extraction permits have 10 years validity. This date is defined from the attribute "UtstedtDato".

DMF is the owner of the data set. The data set is included in the WMS-service Bergrettigheter.

Date (Creation): 2000-05-01

Date (Publication): 2009-06-01

Date (Revision): 2025-04-21

Code: bergrettigheter

Purpose: The mineral exploration and extraction permits display the areas covered with exploration- and extraction permits of the Norwegian state’s minerals, contrary to the land owner’s minerals. See definition of State minerals in the Minerals Act § 7. This is used by the authorities to manage the areas of the permits and to give stakeholders insight into which areas are covered with state mineral permits

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Norges geologiske undersøkelse	Bobo Nordahl	bo.nordahl@ngu.no	Point of contact
Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard	Trond Refseth	trond.refseth@dirmin.no	Point of contact
Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard	Steinar Nilssen	steinar.nilssen@dirmin.no	Point of contact
Directorate of Mining	IT-utvikling	post@dirmin.no	Publisher
Directorate of Mining	Mineralutvinning	post@dirmin.no	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency: Continual

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Nasjonal tematisk inndeling (DOK-kategori)

Geologi

Place

Norway

Theme

minerals
mineral resources
prospecting

SOSI produktspesifikasjon

Spatial scope

National

Specific usage: Mineral prospecting, mineral exploration, mineral exploitation, mineral extraction, urban planning, detailed zoning plans, detailed planning, municipal planning.

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
			Owner

Use limitation: Referring to NLOD

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Åpne data

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Norsk lisens for offentlige data (NLOD)

Other constraints: Kopidata fra NGU/DMF skal ikke, uten at spesiell tillatelse er gitt, gjenbrukes i webtjenester som kunden/brukeren selv måtte ønske å sette opp for intern/ekstern viderebruk. Ønsker kunden/brukeren å inkludere data fra parten i egne løsninger skal de tilrettelagte WMS-tjenestene benyttes direkte i løsningene.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 50000

Language: Norwegian

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Supplemental Information: Candidate to the Norwegian public data archive (DOK). The permits are defined by the Minerals Act. Exploration permits are labelled “UND”, extraction permits are labelled “UTV”. The validity of the exploration permits is 7 years from the best priority whereas extraction permits have 10 years validity. This date is defined from the attribute "UtstedtDato". The permits can be extended, cf. Minerals Act § 23 and §§ 33-34.

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:25832

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:25833

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:25835

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:3035

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

Name	Version
FGDB
FGDB	10.0
GeoJSON
GML
GML	3.2.1
PostGIS
PostGIS	12
PostGIS	9.4
SOSI
SOSI	4.5
GeoJSON
GML
PostGIS
SOSI
FGDB

Units of distribution: fylkesvis, kommunevis, landsfiler

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
GEONORGE:DOWNLOAD	https://nedlasting.test.geonorge.no/api/capabilities/

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Title: inspire

Date

Explanation: The data is not evaluated according to the product specification

Conformance result

Title: SOSI produktspesifikasjon: Bergrettigheter

Date (Publication): 2021-08-23

Title: sosi

Date

Explanation: The data is according to the product specification

Pass: Yes

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Title: Sosi applikasjonsskjema

Date (Publication): 2021-08-23

Title: uml-sosi

Date

Explanation: SOSI files are according to application form

Pass: Yes

Conformance result

Title: Sosi applikasjonsskjema

Date (Publication): 2021-08-23

Title: uml-gml

Date

Explanation: GML files are according to application form

Pass: Yes

Completeness omission

Name of measure: Prosentvis oppfyllelse av FAIR-prinsipper

Measure description: Angir fullstendighet i forhold til krav fra FAIR-prinsippene (The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship)