(a) to declare all or any minerals, whether owned by the Crown or by any other person, existing in a natural state beneath the surface of the land anywhere in the Province, or in any designated area in the Province, to be property separate from the soil;

(b) to vest in the Crown in right of the Province all or any of such minerals or any part thereof notwithstanding that all or any of such minerals or any part thereof are claimed by any person through the express words of any instrument, enactment, law or otherwise howsoever;

(c) to fix the effective date of any order made under paragraph (a) or (b) and for that purpose to give the order retrospective effect;

(d) to declare that every grant of land from the Crown made at any time heretofore shall be construed and held to have excepted and reserved to the Crown all the minerals, within the meaning of this Act, in the land, notwithstanding the provisions of any grant or instrument or of any enactment or law;

(e) to provide for compensation to persons sustaining loss or damage by reason of any order made under this Act and the amount thereof;

(f) to prescribe the terms and conditions under which any claim may be made, or compensation may be made, for loss or damage sustained by reason of any order made under this Act;

(g) to give the exclusive right for such period not less than one year as he may determine for prospecting and staking for any minerals taken under this Act to the owners in fee simple of the lands under which such minerals lie.