Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

MINING ACT - SECT 60

60. Grant of mineral lease

(1) Subject to section 140K if applicable, after considering the recommendation of the warden made under section 59, complying with Part XIB (if applicable) and considering any comments lodged under section 163, the Minister may grant to an applicant, for such term, as the Minister thinks fit, a mineral lease -

(a) for the mining of minerals (other than a mineral specified in the lease document as a mineral that the miner may not mine), including the removal from the lease area and the treatment of tailings or other mining material the property of the Crown on the lease area, and for other purposes in connection with the mining of minerals that the Minister thinks fit and specifies in the lease document; or

(b) for other purposes in connection with the mining or processing on a mineral lease of minerals that the Minister thinks fit and specifies in the lease document.

(2) The granting of a mineral lease for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) authorizes the lessee -

(a) to explore for minerals on the lease area;

(b) to mine and use extractive minerals for or in connection with a purpose specified in the lease document; and

(c) to mine extractive minerals where the mining is directly associated with, or reasonably incidental to, the mining of minerals.

(3) The granting of a mineral lease for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) authorizes the lessee to mine and use extractive minerals for or in connection with any of the purposes specified in the lease document.

(4) Subject to Parts XIA and XIB as applicable, the Minister may grant a mineral lease for the purposes of subsection (1)(b) -

(a) only if the applicant for the mineral lease is already the holder of a mineral lease for the purposes of subsection (1)(a); and

(b) only for a term that does not exceed the term for which the mineral lease referred to in paragraph (a) is granted.

(5) The granting of a mineral lease over land reserved under section 178(1) from occupation cancels the reservation under that section of so much of the land as is comprised in the mineral lease.