Do you know that the land you own covers only surface of the land?

When I purchased my home, I also purchased the mineral rights. This process took awhile to get, but in the long run, I own what I find under the soil. Most people don't know that, just because you buy a house, all minerals go to someone who owns the mineral rights. Even though I own rights to any minerals I might find, I still have to pull a permit to extract those minerals. It is a lot of paper work but well worth it!

You are right and hence when someone finds any gold treasure, idols anywhere by their property the government takes over it..it belongs to the government and no one can claim individual rsponsibility of those resources..

You could be right there as now it seems that you need a permit here to do anything in the way of Repairs or something New to your residence unless it is something minor usually. It is getting a little rediculous that everytime you turn around it seems like the changes being made actually end up costing you a lot more than saving you something.

This is quite interesting actually! I do remember my father seeking permision for digging well and deep tube well in our country home. Nowadays, I don't think digging deep tubewells is permissible. I am not sure though.

In Canada, the government owns the minerals, unless the Native peoples who have been here before have previous claim. But I have not found any diamonds or gold in my back yard, so am not going to test it. I do not thik the minister in charge of natural resources will send someone over to collect 'His" findings, but I am positive, however, that some Assiniboine, Dakota, or Sioux (depending on what part of my province I live in, will come to our house and say that since they were the original inhabitants, that the gold I found in my backyard is theirs.