{
 "resource": "tenure_registers",
 "feed_version": "1.0.0",
 "dataset_version": "v2.137.21",
 "as_of": "2026-08-18",
 "publisher": "Afrimintel Ltd (Mauritius)",
 "coverage": {
  "jurisdictions_mapped": 29,
  "with_public_register": 25,
  "downloadable_open": 4,
  "restricted_recorded": 3
 },
 "statement": "Mineral TENURE availability by jurisdiction: whether a public mineral-title register/cadastre exists, its URL, its terms of use, and whether the data is downloadable. This is a source-availability + governance layer, NOT an ingestion of every permit. Three restricted registers (Kenya, SODEMI/Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa SAMRAD) are recorded here for completeness but were never fetched — their terms bar the use. Most African cadastres run on the Trimble/Spatial Dimension Landfolio stack as portal-only map views with no open-data licence; the notable exception is Nigeria's downloadable Valid Mineral Titles XLSX.",
 "known_limits": [
  "No register on the pages read stated a machine-readable total title count; every count is 'not stated'. Trade-press counts (e.g. Burkina '418', Zimbabwe '60,000') were deliberately NOT adopted.",
  "'downloadable' records the strongest public access found (XLSX > CSV > API > PDF > portal-only > none); portal-only means a map view with no bulk export.",
  "Licences are mostly 'not stated' — that is UNRESOLVED, not permissive. Bulk ingestion of any of these registers requires a per-source licence check first, exactly as for the production layer."
 ],
 "registers": [
  {
   "country": "angola",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Cadastro Mineiro (MIREMPET)",
   "url": "https://cadastromineiro.mirempet.gov.ao/page/HomePublic",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "botswana",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Botswana Mining Cadastre Portal (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portal.miningcadastre.gov.bw/page/mappublic",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "burkina-faso",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "e-Cadastre Minier — Titres Miniers Valides",
   "url": "https://www.ecadastreminier.bf/index.php/titres-miniers-valides/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "PDF",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Periodic valid-title lists (mostly PDF; one 2022 XLSX). No stated aggregate."
  },
  {
   "country": "cameroon",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Cameroon Mining Cadastre (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portals.landfolio.com/cameroon/en/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "drc",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "CAMI — public licence search + WRI Forest Atlas ArcGIS mirror",
   "url": "https://drclicences.cami.cd/EN/",
   "licence": "licence not stated; ArcGIS mirror attributes to CAMI, no open-reuse grant",
   "downloadable": "API",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Data-layer only per the Great Lakes rule. WRI Forest Atlas ArcGIS REST is the queryable route (JSON/GeoJSON, 1,000-record cap); cami.cd main site was unreachable."
  },
  {
   "country": "egypt",
   "has_public_register": false,
   "register_name": "EMRA / Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources",
   "url": "https://www.petroleum.gov.eg/en/mineral-resources/",
   "licence": "n/a",
   "downloadable": "none",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "No public holder-level register; bid-round materials only."
  },
  {
   "country": "ethiopia",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Ethiopia Mining Cadastre (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://ethiopian.portal.miningcadastre.com/mappage.aspx",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "gabon",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Géo-portail de l'Administration des Mines du Gabon",
   "url": "http://www.gabon-mines.org/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Geoportal reported operational Oct 2025; downloadability unconfirmed."
  },
  {
   "country": "ghana",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Minerals Commission MCAS + Mining Repository (RDF)",
   "url": "https://miningrepository.mincom.gov.gh/dashboard",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Searchable repository (title/company/status/substance/region). No bulk download confirmed."
  },
  {
   "country": "guinea",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Cadastre Minier de Guinée (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://guinee.cadastreminier.org/en/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "ivory-coast",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "SODEMI cadastre + CN-ITIE registre minier",
   "url": "https://cn-itie.ci/registre-minier",
   "licence": "RESTRICTED — SODEMI data sold commercially",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": true,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Forbidden: recorded only. A CN-ITIE registre may be a distinct open source, not harvested under the rule."
  },
  {
   "country": "kenya",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Kenya Online Mining Cadastre Portal",
   "url": "https://portal.miningcadastre.go.ke/",
   "licence": "RESTRICTED — anti-scraping clause",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": true,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Forbidden: availability recorded only, never fetched."
  },
  {
   "country": "liberia",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Liberia Mining Cadastre (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portals.landfolio.com/liberia/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "madagascar",
   "has_public_register": false,
   "register_name": "BCMM — Bureau du Cadastre Minier",
   "url": "https://bcmm.mg/donnees-tabulaires-3/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Office exists; no downloadable holder table or live map URL surfaced."
  },
  {
   "country": "malawi",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Malawi Mining Cadastre Portal (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portals.landfolio.com/malawi/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "MWEITI separately publishes beneficial-ownership + contract disclosures. Govt cadastre page SSL-blocked."
  },
  {
   "country": "mali",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Cadastre Minier du Mali (RDF repository)",
   "url": "https://mali.revenuedev.org/dashboard",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Bilingual searchable register (owner, dates, area, substances, payments/arrears)."
  },
  {
   "country": "mauritania",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Mauritania Mining Cadastre (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portals.landfolio.com/Mauritania/en/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "morocco",
   "has_public_register": false,
   "register_name": "ONHYM",
   "url": "https://mining.onhym.com/en",
   "licence": "n/a",
   "downloadable": "none",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "No public holder-level mineral register found; licensing-process pages only."
  },
  {
   "country": "mozambique",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Mozambique Mining Cadastre (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portals.landfolio.com/mozambique/en/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "namibia",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "MME Cadastre Map Portal + published EPL/ML lists",
   "url": "https://portal.mme.gov.na/page/MapPublic",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "PDF",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Public map plus downloadable PDF EPL/licence lists."
  },
  {
   "country": "niger",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "ITIE-Niger — Liste des permis d'exploitation",
   "url": "https://itieniger.ne/liste-des-permis-exploitations/",
   "licence": "'Tous les droits réservés' (all rights reserved)",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [
    "ORANO MINING",
    "SOMAIR",
    "COMINAK",
    "IMOURAREN SA",
    "SOMINA",
    "SML",
    "SONICHAR"
   ],
   "note": "HTML permit table with holder names visible; no download. ~18-20 exploitation permits (visual, not a stated total)."
  },
  {
   "country": "nigeria",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Mining Cadastre Office (MCO) — eMC+ / Valid Mineral Titles",
   "url": "https://www.miningcadastre.gov.ng/publication",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "XLSX",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Downloadable holder-level 'Valid Mineral Titles' XLSX (31 May 2026) — the strongest open tenure feed found in Africa."
  },
  {
   "country": "senegal",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Cadastre Minier du Sénégal (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://cadastreminiersenegal.sn/EN/",
   "licence": "'Copyright Spatial Dimension'; no reuse terms",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Map view. ITIE-Sénégal also publishes a permits/concessions list."
  },
  {
   "country": "sierra-leone",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "NMA Mining Cadastre + Repository (RDF)",
   "url": "https://sierraleone.revenuedev.org/license",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": []
  },
  {
   "country": "south-africa",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "DMPR SAMRAD",
   "url": "https://www.samradonline.co.za/",
   "licence": "RESTRICTED — non-commercial-use clause",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": true,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Forbidden: availability recorded only, never fetched."
  },
  {
   "country": "tanzania",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Mining Commission OMCTP (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portal.madini.go.tz/page/PublicMap",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Public map view of the transactional cadastre."
  },
  {
   "country": "uganda",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "DGSM Mining Cadastre & Registration System (MCRS, Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://dgsmportal.minerals.go.ug/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Public real-time map portal."
  },
  {
   "country": "zambia",
   "has_public_register": true,
   "register_name": "Zambia Mining Cadastre eGov Portal (Landfolio)",
   "url": "https://portals.landfolio.com/zambia/",
   "licence": "Terms-on-access; no-warranty disclaimer; no open-data licence",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Public map view; full access self-registration-gated. No bulk download/API."
  },
  {
   "country": "zimbabwe",
   "has_public_register": false,
   "register_name": "Zimbabwe Mining Cadastre (Landfolio) — rollout in progress",
   "url": "https://portal.miningcadastre.org/zw/",
   "licence": "licence not stated",
   "downloadable": "portal-only",
   "restricted": false,
   "notable_holders": [],
   "note": "Computerised cadastre mid-rollout 2025; public register not yet confirmed live/open."
  }
 ]
}