Land Titles offices are required to issue mineral certificates before registering any transfer of transfers, mortgages or leases of mineral interests. A mineral certificate states exactly what minerals are owned in a specific parcel of land and by whom, on what date and what mines and minerals exactly. Most titles have now been separated into “surface only” and “minerals only” titles. If, as is likely in most cases, you have a surface only title, the legal description will be followed by a “mineral reservation”, a phrase stating “excepting thereout all mines and minerals.” Last updated: October 2015