Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts25. Other mining interests over licence area
An exploration licence does not, in respect of the licence area, prevent -
(a) the granting to a miner of an extractive mineral permit or extractive mineral lease and the extraction of extractive minerals in accordance with that permit or lease, as the case may be;
(b) the holder of another mining tenement or exploration retention licence -
(i) from obtaining water rights over the land for the purposes of working that other mining tenement or exploration retention licence; or
(ii) from being granted any other mining tenement or exploration retention licence for the purposes of or ancillary to the working of that first-mentioned mining tenement or exploration retention licence;
(c) subject to section 83(2), any miner from being granted a mineral claim;
(d) subject to Part X (and in particular section 132), any fossicker from fossicking, to the extent that that activity does not interfere with the lawful activities of the licensee; or
(e) the holder of a mining tenement or exploration retention licence from surrendering the tenement or licence in exchange for another mining tenement or exploration retention licence over all or any part of the land held under the first-mentioned mining tenement or exploration retention licence.