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Mining Governance and Regulation

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Legislation relating to strategic prospectivity and mineral resource development is administered by Mineral Resources Tasmania, a division of the Department of Infrastructure Energy and Resources.

  • Exploration for minerals may be conducted on an exploration licence. Once the exploration licence has been granted, exploration carried out under a licence issued under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 does not require specific planning or environmental approval. MRT provides approval for exploration activities on a work program basis.

  • Once approved, all exploration programs must be conducted to environmental standards set out in the Mineral Exploration Code of Practice.The Code provides an outline of the procedures to be followed to obtain exploration approvals as well as the controls and monitoring procedures in place.

  • Exploration licences are issued fro up to 5 years and the term may be extended if a discovery is made towards the end of the tenure period.

  • Exploration is the search for economic mineral deposits by a variety of scientific methods. A typical exploration program includes an initial regional data collection phase followed by more specific examination of areas regaded as geologically significant.