Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT - SECT 11

(1) A miner's right authorizes the holder thereof, subject to the Water Act and the Soil Conservation and Land Utilization Act , and in accordance with the provisions of this Act -

(a) to obtain an area of land under a mining tenement, exploration retention licence or an exploration licence; and

(b) subject to subsection (3), with the consent of a warden, to enter on any land -

(i) not comprised in an exploration licence area held by any other person; or

(ii) not the subject of an application for an exploration retention licence or mining tenement by any other person,

to survey and reconnoitre the land using non-intrusive means to establish its exploration potential for minerals or extractive minerals and, in connection therewith, to mark out the land in the prescribed manner.

(2) The holder of a miner's right does not have the right to take, use and dispose of water on any land that has been artificially conserved on that land by or on behalf of a person who was at the time of construction of the means by which it is artificially conserved, in lawful occupation of that land.

(3) Subsection (1)(b) does not authorize the carrying out of survey or reconnaissance work by -

(b) means of a mechanical device, other than a hand-held metal detecting device; or

(c) such other means as may, from time to time, be prescribed.