[Sidenote: Carbonaceous Minerals.] (_b_) Carbonaceous minerals, including anthracite, asphalt, brown coal, bitumen and its compounds, coal, graphite, lignite, and all substances of a like nature to any of them, or combinations of any of them with each other or with any other substance. [Sidenote: Earthy Minerals.] (_c_) Earthy minerals, including asbestos, barytes, clays, gypsum, infusorial earth, sandstone, marble, mica, phosphates, potash, rock salt, soda, sulphur, steatite, slate, talc, and all other substances of a like nature to any of them. [Sidenote: Precious Stones.] (_d_) Precious stones, including amber, amethyst, beryl, cat’s eye, chrysolite, diamond, emerald, garnet, opal, ruby, sapphire, turquoise, and all substances of a similar nature to any of them. [Sidenote: Saving as to quarrying, &c.] 3. Nothing in this Proclamation shall prevent any person from quarrying stone for building purposes, or any native of the Protectorate from mining for iron, salt, soda, or potash, except in any area over which a mining lease has been granted. [Sidenote: No person to prospect without a prospecting right, or exclusive licence.] 4.—(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to prospect for minerals without having first obtained a prospecting right or an exclusive licence to prospect in the prescribed form. (2) An exclusive licence to prospect shall not be granted to any applicant who has not, either by himself or his duly authorised agents, examined the area over which an exclusive licence to prospect is applied for. (3) It shall be in the discretion of the Governor for good cause to refuse an application for a prospecting right or an exclusive licence to prospect. [Sidenote: Prospecting right.] 5. A prospecting right shall entitle the holder to prospect for any minerals in those parts of the Protectorate which are not included in any exclusive licence to prospect, and which the Governor has not by Government Notice in the Gazette declared to be closed to prospectors. [Sidenote: Prospectors employed by corporations.] In the case of a company or corporation employing prospecting engineers or prospectors, each prospecting engineer or prospector shall be required to take out an individual prospecting right. [Sidenote: Exclusive licence to prospect.] 6. An exclusive licence to prospect shall entitle the holder thereof, and his duly authorised agents, to the sole right of prospecting for minerals within an area not less than one square mile and not more than sixteen square miles in extent, and for a period of one year from the date thereof, subject to renewal in accordance with the prescribed regulations for further terms of one year each, but so as not to exceed a period of three years in the whole. [Sidenote: Right to enter upon land to prospect.]