12Mining transport activity

12 Mining transport activity

The expression mining transport activity means: (a) if minerals, or ores bearing minerals, are beneficiated at a place other than the mining site as an integral part of operations for their recovery: (i) the journey undertaken for the purpose of transporting the minerals or ores from the mining site to that place; and (ii) the return journey of a vehicle, a locomotive or other equipment from that place to the mining site or any part of that journey if it is undertaken for the purpose of repeating a journey referred to in subparagraph (i) or for the backloading of raw materials or consumables for use in a mining operation referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of that expression in subsection 11(1); or (b) if natural gas is liquefied at a place other than the mining site—the transporting of the natural gas from the mining site to that place.