What is a mining tenement?
- A mining tenement provides a tenement holder with particular, limited rights and obligations over a parcel of land.
- The grant of mining tenements and the types of mining tenements that may be granted to a tenement holder are specified in the relevant state or territory legislation. Sometimes these may be amended by particular state or territory agreement acts.
- As an example in Western Australia the Mining Act 1978 administers mining exploration and development for all onshore areas and out to three nautical miles seaward of the state’s baseline in Western Australia.
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