New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT 1992 - SECT 73

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 mining purpose.

(1A) The holder of a mining lease granted in respect of a mining purpose or mining purposes only may, in accordance with the conditions of the lease, carry out the mining purpose or mining purposes 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.

(9) 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.