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PROSPECTORS MUST OBTAIN AND CARRY A Miner's Right

A Miner's Right may be obtained for a fee at the Department of Mines and Petroleum, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, or at any Mining Registrar's Office. 
Alternatively  an application form is attached to the booklet  MINER'S RIGHTS that can be viewed and downloaded by clicking on the box below.

 Following is a brief summary
An individual or company incorporated under the Corporation Law may hold a Miner's Right. In each case it is important to ensure that the Right is used in the full and correct name. A Miner's Right cannot be issued in a registered business name.

The holder of Miner's Right is authorised under Section 20 of the Mining Act 1978 to carry out the
following activities on Crown land not the subject of a mining tenement:
• prospect for minerals (including gold);
• conduct geological mapping;
• conduct tests for minerals;
• undertake limited sampling using hand held equipment and to remove samples up to 20 kilograms;
• mark out mining tenements;
• fossick for rocks, gemstones, etc;
• take water and camp for the purposes of prospecting.
Possession of a Miner's Right does not authorise these activities on private land or Reserve land (except where the purpose is a Common, Mining or Public Utility).
   
   MINER'S RIGHTS in WA