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“analysis” means the determination of the composition of a specimen or sample by physical or chemical method;

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“authorized person” means a person authorized by a Geological

Survey Officer in making a geological survey;

“Collector” means a Land Administrator within the meaning of the National Land Code [Act 56 of 1965] and a Collector of Land

Revenue within the meaning of the Land Ordinance of Sabah

[Cap. 68] and in relation to Sarawak means the Superintendent appointed under section 3 of the Land Code of Sarawak [Cap. 81];

“Director General” means the Director General of Geological

Survey appointed under section 3;

“fossiliferous material” means any mineral substance, including rock material, which contains remains or traces of animals or plants which have been preserved by natural processes in the earth’s crust;

“geological survey” means any systematic investigation of the surface, or content of the earth with or without the aid of any physical or chemical measurement;

“Geological Survey Officer” means any person appointed under section 3;

“identification” means the naming of a sample using simple physical and chemical tests when necessary;

“mineral” means any naturally occurring homogeneous substance with a definite chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement;

“ore” means solid naturally occurring mineral aggregate of economic interest from which one or more valuable constituents may profitably be recovered by treatment;

“rock material” means any rock, stone, marble, gravel, sand, earth, laterite, loam, clay, soil, mud, turf, peat, coral, shell or guano within or upon any land;

“sample” means a fraction of naturally occurring matter representative of the mass of which it forms a part;

“specimen” means a fraction of naturally occurring matter not necessarily representative of the mass of which it forms a part.

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