87(1)Where a mining lease expires or is surrendered or cancelled under this Act, the lessee may, within one year after that surrender, expiration or cancellation remove any structure, equipment, machinery or other property that he may have placed or erected on the lease area, and he may remove any minerals which he may have extracted from the lease area and in relation to which he has paid the royalty required under this Act or the tax required under the Metallic Minerals Tax Act, but he shall not remove any supports placed within a mine or any timbers or framework installed for the use and maintenance of any shafts or other approaches to any mine.

87(2)Where the lessee is not the owner of the surface, the ownership of any structure, equipment, machinery or other property placed or erected on the lease area by the lessee and remaining after the expiry of the period referred to in subsection (1) vests, subject to any agreement with the owner of the surface, in the Crown and may be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by the Minister.

87(3)The ownership of any extracted mineral remaining after the expiry of the time referred to in subsection (1) remains in the Crown.