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NSW Current Mining and Exploration Titles

In NSW all prospecting and mining activities must be carried out under an approved title granted under the Mining Act (NSW). The term ‘title’ refers to all exploration and mining authorities, authorisations, tenements, licences, leases, and claims. Acronyms are often used to describe a title, e.g. AUTH, EL, PEL, ML.


An approved title gives the holder the right to conduct exploration activities or mining activities within a specified area according to the conditions defined in the Mining Act for each title type. A titleholder can be an individual, group of individuals, a company, or group of companies, and some titles are held by the NSW Government.


‘Current’ or ‘active’ titles are currently in force and include titles granted under older versions of the Mining Act. Some title type e.g. CMLs have been granted in the 1973 and 1992 versions of the Mining Act, leading to duplicate title identifications e.g. CML6 (1973) and CML6 (1992). The year of the Act is essential in understanding the legislation and conditions relevant to that particular title.


When a title expires or is cancelled, suspended or revoked it becomes ‘inactive'/'historical’. At this time it is moved to the historic titles data set.


Titles in this dataset are onshore titles only (onshore or within 3km of the NSW coastline). All other offshore titles are regulated by the Federal Government.


As different exploration and mining activities can coexist over the same area, titles can overlap e.g. exploration for Group 1 minerals and exploration for Group 2 may occur in the same area under different title holders. Where this overlap occurs, a cooperation agreement must be in place between the coexisting title holders. Approval from the Minister for Regional NSW, or a department delegate, is required.

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Identification info

Date (Revision)
2021-05-20T00:00:00
Citation identifier
264982a082f1a0394c9dc1151dea239e42daf7b6

Status
On going

Custodian

Geological Survey of NSW - Email MinView Information
516 High St
Maitland
2320
Australia
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Boundaries
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Keywords (Place)
  • title
  • tenement
  • exploration
  • mining
  • New South Wales
ANZSRC theme
  • Earth Sciences
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Content Information

Property description

Elements

Definition
The TAS identifier
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
INTEGER

Elements

Definition
Concatenation of title_code and title_no, forming the title.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
VARCHAR

Elements

Definition
The title holder.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
TEXT

Elements

Definition
The date the title application was granted (approved).
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
DATE

Elements

Definition
The date the title is due to expire (become historic).
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
DATE

Elements

Definition
The date the title was last renewed (if extending beyond the original application time limit).
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
VARCHAR

Elements

Definition
The Mineral Act 1992 (NSW) mineral groups the title is valid for.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
TEXT

Elements

Definition
The specific minerals defined in the Mining Act 1992 (NSW) that the title is valid for. If the title is an exploration title e.g. AUTH, EL it is valid for all minerals in the mineral group. If the title is a mining or production title it is valid for mining or producing these minerals only.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
TEXT

Elements

Definition
The year of the Mining Act (NSW) that the title is valid under. Special note: some titles can have duplicate identifiers, but have been granted under different mining Acts e.g. CML6(1973) and CML6(1992).

Elements

Definition
The title_code is an acronym of the full title type e.g. EL stands for Exploration Licence. Each title may only have one title_code.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
VARCHAR

Elements

Definition
The number of the title.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
INTEGER

Elements

Definition
The resource the title is granted for e.g. minerals, coal, geothermal, offshore or petroleum.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
VARCHAR

Elements

Definition
The area of the title. Exploration titles are defined using graticular UNITS (approx 3 sq km). Mining titles are surveyed and reported in square m, hectares or square km.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
VARCHAR

Elements

Definition
The operation the title is valid for e.g. exploration, assessment, mining or prospecting.
Cardinalities
1..1
Name
VARCHAR

Distribution Information

Distribution format
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Resource lineage

Statement
Titles spatial data was originally digitised from hardcopy plans when the Titles Administration System (TAS) was implemented in the early 1990s. Spatial data is currently managed using ArcGIS SDE geodatabase.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326

Metadata constraints

Use limitation
The State of New South Wales, acting through Regional NSW, supports and encourages the reuse of its publicly funded information, and endorses the use of the Australian Governments Open Access and Licensing Framework (AusGOAL). All NSW Regional NSW material on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, except as noted below. Please give attribution in this form: © State of New South Wales through Regional NSW. For current information go to www.nsw.gov.au. We also request that you observe and retain any copyright or related notices that may accompany this material as part of the attribution. The following material available from this website is not licensed under the Creative Commons licence: The State's Coat of Arms and any other symbols, logos or trademarks of the State of NSW or any Department or agency of the State (unless incidentally reproduced in using an unaltered document under the Creative Commons licence). Any third party material unless expressly stated to be published under the Creative Commons licence, and Any material on the website that is expressly stated to be published subject to specified conditions other than the Creative Commons licence.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/264982a082f1a0394c9dc1151dea239e42daf7b6

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Custodian

Geological Survey of NSW - Email MinView Information
516 High St
Maitland
2320
Australia
Parent metadata
  • Geological Survey NSW GeoServer Web Map Service

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.geoscience.nsw.gov.au:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/264982a082f1a0394c9dc1151dea239e42daf7b6

Date info (Revision)
2022-01-25T10:08:49
Date info (Creation)
2021-09-29T12:13:23

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115:2018
Edition
1.0
 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC theme
Earth Sciences

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