Schedules - National Minerals Agency

SCHEDULES:

First Schedule
Second Schedule
Third Schedule
Fifth Schedule

First Schedule - Fees

Table 1: Licence and Related Fees / Charges

No	Fee Category	Licence Category	Amount
1	New Application	Reconnaissance	$500
2	Renewal	Reconnaissance	$500
3	New Application	Exploration	$500
4	Renewal	Exploration	$500
5	New Application	Small Scale	$1,000
6	Renewal	Small Scale	$1,000
7	Annual Licence Fee	Small Scale	$800/ha
8	Citizen Corporative Mines Manager Certificate	Small Scale	Le1,000,000
9	Non-Citizen Corporative Mines Managers Certificate	Small Scale	$1,000
10	Dredge Permit	Small Scale	$10,000
11	Alluvial Diamond Exporter’s Licence	Exporter, plus 7 Agents per (inclusive of two Free Agents (Full Year)	$35,000
12	Alluvial Diamond Exporter’s Licence	Exporter, (Half Year)	$30,000
13	Alluvial Diamond Exporter’s Agent Certificate	Exporter Agent (Full Year)	$6,000
14	Alluvial Diamond Exporter’s Agent Certificate	Exporter Agent (Half Year)	$4,000
15	Non – Citizen Alluvial Diamond Dealer’s Licence		$7,000
16	Ecowas Citizen Diamond Dealers Agents Licence		$3,000
17	Citizen Diamond Dealers Agents Licence		$2,500
18	Ecowas Citizen Diamond Dealers Agents Certificate		$1,500
19	Citizen Diamond Dealers Agents Certificate		$1,000
20	Monitoring Fee	Diamond Dealers	$500
21	Rehabilitation Fee	Diamond Dealers	$400
22	Alluvial Gold Exporter’s Licence	Exporter (Full year)	$7,500
23	Alluvial Gold Exporters Agent Certificate		USD 3,000
24	Non-Citizens Gold Dealers Licence		USD 1,000
25	Ecowas citizens Gold Dealers Licence		USD 750
26	Citizens Gold Dealers Licence		Le 750,000
27	Ecowas citizen Gold Dealers Agents Certificate		Le 500,000
28	Citizen Gold Dealers Agents Cert		Le 300,000
29	Monitoring fee(Non-citizen) Gold Dealers		$400
30	Rehabilitation fee ( non-citizen) gold Dealers		$400
31	Monitoring fee (citizen)		Le 675,000
32	Rehabilitation fee (citizen)		Le 675,000
33	Industrial and Sand Based Exporters Licence	Exporter	$5,000
34	Exporters Agents Certificate		$2,500
35	Non-citizen Dealers Licence		$1,500
36	Ecowas citizen Dealers Licence		$500
37	Citizens Dealers Licence		Le 750,000
38	Ecowas citizen Dealers Agents Cert.		Le 500,000
39	Citizen Dealers Agents certificate		Le 300,000
40	Monitoring fee (non-citizen)	Industrial Sand Based Dealers	$400
41	Rehabilitation fee (non-citizen)	Industrial Sand Based Dealers	$400
42	Monitoring fee (Citizen)	Industrial Sand Based Dealers	Le 675,000
43	Rehabilitation Fee (Citizen)	Industrial Sand Based Dealers	Le 675,000
44	Blasting Licence fee	Large scale	$20,000
45	Blasting Licence fee	Small scale	$10,000
46	Blasters certificate (non-citizen)		$5,000
47	Blasters certificate (Citizen)		Le 2,500,000
48	Monitoring Fees to all Industrial Licences (large scale, small scale, Exploration & Reconnaissance)		10% of Annual Licence Fees

Table 2: Fees for Mapping and Information Access

NO	TYPE OF INFORMATION	FEE
1	Access to browse open-file reports (paper and/or digital copies	$10 per half day
2	Inspection of the Cadastral survey map of mineral rights and applications	Free
3	Supply of GPS coordinates or copy of part of the cadastral map	$10
4	Access to inspect the register of mineral rights & Application, etc. (pursuant to section 49 of the Act	$ 25 per 30 minutes
5	Photocopy of open file report (A4 size)	Le 1,000 per page
6	Photocopy of map plan (A2 size)	$5
7	Digital copy of open file report (as pdf file on CD or DVD)	$50 per report
8	Certificate D22 confirming information relating to a mineral right (section 47 of Act)	$50 per item
9	Maps on A0 paper size per unit sheet	$70
10	Maps on A1 paper size per unit sheet	$35
11	Maps on A2 paper size per unit	$30
12	Maps on A3 paper size per unit sheet	$25
13	Maps on A4 paper size per unit sheet	$20
14	Mapping of Client Coordinates (maximum of 10 copies)	$20
15	Bulletins	$120
16	Short papers	$100
17	Memoir	$150
18	Laboratory Service charges (for each sealed package)	$50

Table 3: Offenses and Penalties

No	Type of Offence	Penalty
20	Late or non-compliant technical report	$2,000
21	Late or non-compliant audited financial report	$2,000
22	Failure to keep complete technical records	$2,000
23	Late or non-payment of annual charges	5% per month
24	Failure to pay penalty on time	20% per month
25	Failure to notify Minister of substantial changes in ownership	$3,000
26	Failure to comply with official written instruction	$3,000
27	Failure to commence work within limit specified in Act	$3,000
28	Failure to notify Minister when scale mine commences work for permit	$3,000
29	Failure to notify Minister of termination, suspension or reduction of production under large-scale mining Licence	$5,000
30	Failure to submit audited statements of itemized expenditure directly incurred on exploration activities ( 78 (3) of NMA 09)	$40,000
31	Failure to meet minimum expenditure requirement (after first carry forward) NMA 09, Violation of any health and safety provision or failure to follow directives or maintain accident register	$5,000
32	Violation of agreed environmental management programme or failure to carry out rehabilitation or reclamation	$8,000
33	Failure to honour employment and training commitments or requirements of Act	$5,000
34	Any Other breaches not specified above	$ 2,000 to $ 10,000

Table 4: Small-scale and Artisanal Mining

No	Fee	Licence Category	Amount
1	Demarcation fee	Artisanal	Le 250,000
2	Artisanal financial Supporters certificate	Artisanal	Le 250,000/acre
3	Artisanal Miners sales card	Artisanal	Le 20,000
4	Artisanal & Co-operation Mines Manager certificate	Artisanal	Le 100,000/acre
5	Small-scale Monitoring	Small scale	Le 500,000/acre
6	Citizen Corporative mines Manager Certificate	Small scale	Le 500,000
7	Non-Citizen Corporative Mines Manager Certificate	Small scale	Le 1,000,000