mynpacht
A South African legal and mining term for a mining lease — the right granted by a landowner or government to extract minerals from a defined piece of ground in exchange for payment or royalties.
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A South African legal and mining term for a mining lease — the right granted by a landowner or government to extract minerals from a defined piece of ground in exchange for payment or royalties. Used in the formal context of South African mining law, particularly in the gold and diamond industries.
The company had held the mynpacht on that stretch of land since the 1890s.
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(South Africa) A mining lease.
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