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NSW Mineral Claim Districts

Identifies Mineral Claims Districts in the State of NSW as defined by Part 9, Division 1, Section 173 of the Mining Act 1992 No. 29. There are two current Mineral Claims Districts: Lightning Ridge Mineral Claims District, and White Cliffs Mineral Claims District.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2020-08-01
Edition
1
Purpose
Identifies Mineral Claims Districts in the State of NSW as defined by Part 9, Division 1, Section 173 of the Mining Act 1992 No. 29: (1) The Governor may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute any land as a mineral claims district and may, by the same or a subsequent order so published, name the district and fix its boundaries. (2) Such an order: (a) may not be made except on the recommendation of the Minister, and (b) may not be made over land within a reserve if an order under section 367 directs that mineral claims are not to be granted over land in the reserve, and (c) may not be made over land within an exempted area except in accordance with the consent of the controlling body for that area.
Status
On going

Point of contact

Mining, Exploration and Geoscience - Email Manager Small Scale Titles
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Geoscientific information

Temporal extent

Time period
1993-01-01
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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (Place)
  • New South Wales
Keywords (Theme)
  • BOUNDARIES-Administrative
  • GEOSCIENCE-Mining
  • GEOSCIENCE-Small scale mines,
  • GEOSCIENCE-Opal
  • BOUNDARIES – Mineral Claims District

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
This data is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Attribute Regional NSW in publications using this data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • ESRI shapefile

Resource lineage

Statement
As defined in the Mining Act 1992.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
Coordinate System: Geographic Angular Unit: Degree Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0) Datum: D_GDA_1994 Spheroid: GRS_1980

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/63004356-46aa-4f2b-ab87-3aa05c30c880

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Custodian

Mining, Exploration and Geoscience - Email Manager Small Scale Titles
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.geoscience.nsw.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/63004356-46aa-4f2b-ab87-3aa05c30c880

Date info (Revision)
2021-09-29T11:33:46
Date info (Creation)
2021-02-18T10:05:16

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Edition
1.0
 
 

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Spatial extent

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W


Keywords

BOUNDARIES – Mineral Claims District BOUNDARIES-Administrative GEOSCIENCE-Mining GEOSCIENCE-Opal GEOSCIENCE-Small scale mines,

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