MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 73
Rights under mining lease
MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 73
Rights under mining lease
73 Rights under mining lease
(1) The holder of a mining lease granted in respect of a mineral or minerals
may, in accordance with the conditions of the lease--
(a) prospect on the land
specified in the lease for, and mine on that land, the mineral or minerals so
specified, and
(b) carry out on that land such primary treatment operations
(such as crushing, sizing, grading, washing and leaching) as are necessary to
separate the mineral or minerals from the material from which they are
recovered, and
(c) carry out on that land any ancillary mining activity.
(1A) The holder of a mining lease granted in respect of an ancillary mining
activity or activities only may, in accordance with the conditions of the
lease, carry out the ancillary mining activity or activities specified in the
lease.
(2) While a mining lease is in force, the holder of the lease and any
person acting as agent or employee of the holder, or delivering goods or
providing services to the holder, for the purpose of a requirement of or an
activity authorised by the lease may--
(a) for that purpose enter and be on
the mining area, and
(b) do anything so authorised or required.
(3) In this
section--
"mining area" includes, in relation to a lease that does not include the
surface of land, any part of the surface of land on which the holder of the
lease is authorised, in accordance with section 81, to carry out activities.
