The meat and potatoes of a Rec Placer Licence;
Section 29 AR 145/2005
METALLIC AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
TENURE REGULATION
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(a) “Class A water body”, “Class B water body”, “Class C
water body” and “Class D water body” mean a water body
class established and defined under the Code of Practice
for Pipelines and Telecommunication Lines Crossing a
Water Body adopted by the Water (Ministerial)
Regulation (AR 205/98);
(b) “unclassified water body” means a water body for which
no class has been specified under the Code of Practice for
Pipelines and Telecommunication Lines Crossing a Water
Body adopted by the Water (Ministerial) Regulation
(AR 205/98);
(c) “water body” means water body as defined in the Code of
Practice for Pipelines and Telecommunication Lines
Crossing a Water Body adopted by the Water
(Ministerial) Regulation (AR 205/98).
Restriction on placer mining
29 No person shall conduct placer mining unless the person holds
a lease, a licence or a secondary mineral lease.
Application for licence
30(1) An individual may apply to the Minister for a licence.
(2) The Minister may grant a licence to an applicant if the Minister
receives from the applicant
(a) an application in a form that is satisfactory to the Minister,
and
(b) the application fee prescribed in the Schedule to the Mines
and Minerals Administration Regulation (AR 262/97).
Rights conveyed by licence
31 Subject to sections 33 to 36, a licence grants in accordance
with the terms and conditions of the licence the right to win, work
and recover metallic and industrial minerals in and through placer
mining.
Terms of licence
32 The term of a licence is 5 years from the term commencement
Prohibitions re placer mining
33 No person shall, in the conduct of placer mining under a
licence,
(a) permit water to flow through the pump to the sluicebox or
other equipment at a rate greater than 11 litres per second,
(b) use a mesh of greater than 2.54 millimetres on the
screening of the water intake to the sluicebox or other
equipment,
(c) use a suction dredge, front end loader or other mechanical
method to move clay, marl, sand, gravel or topsoil into the
sluicebox or other equipment,
(d) occupy a site or location for a period of more than 14
consecutive days,
(e) use mercury in or within 100 metres of a river, stream or
watercourse or other body of water, or
(f) discharge water into a river, stream or watercourse if the
suspended sediment content of the discharge water
exceeds the suspended sediment content of the water in
the river, stream or watercourse.
Prohibited location
34(1) No licensee shall conduct placer mining within the location
of a lease without the consent of the lessee or of a person
authorized by the lessee to give that consent.
(2) No licensee shall conduct placer mining where operations for
the recovery or processing of a surface material are being
conducted pursuant to a surface material licence or a surface
material lease without the consent of the licensee or lessee or of a
person authorized by the licensee or lessee to give that consent.
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