Forms and fees for mining and resources (updated accordion)

Application guidelines

• Mineral and coal exploration guideline (PDF, 567KB)
• Exploration permit for coal in a coal mining project guideline (PDF, 328KB)
• Mining claim guideline (PDF, 676KB)
• Mineral development licence application guideline (PDF, 390KB)
• Mining lease application guideline (PDF, 468KB)
• Prospecting permit application guideline (PDF, 337KB)

Work program and development plan guidelines

• Initial and later development plan guideline for coal mining leases (PDF, 322KB)
• Mineral mining lease development plan guideline (PDF, 601KB)
• Work program guideline (MRA) (PDF, 502KB)
• Financial and technical capability guideline (PDF, 274KB)

Miscellaneous guidelines

• Disqualification guideline (PDF, 174KB)
• Indirect control guideline (PDF, 175KB)

Application guidelines

• Petroleum lease application guideline (PDF, 347KB)
• Potential commercial area application guideline (PDF, 332KB)

Work program and development plan guidelines

• Work program guideline (ATP) (PDF, 480KB)
• Initial and later development plan guideline for petroleum leases (PDF, 377KB)
• Later development plan guideline for a petroleum lease (PDF, 345KB)
• Project-based development plan guideline (PDF, 264KB)
• Financial and technical capability guideline (PDF, 274KB)

Other

• Production testing guideline (PDF, 412KB)

• Shapefile guide (PDF, 1MB)
• Area coordinates generator (XLSM, 29KB)
• Area coordinates generator (degree, minute, second) (XLSM, 60KB)

Renewal guideline

• Renewal guideline (petroleum) (PDF, 467KB)
• Renewal guideline (minerals and coal) (PDF, 2MB)

General administration guidelines

• Guideline for administrators and liquidators (PDF, 397KB)
• Permit administration guideline (PDF, 374KB)
• Permit transfer guideline (PDF, 453KB)
• Relinquishment guideline (PDF, 284KB)
• Authorised holder representative guide (PDF, 357KB)
• Coordination arrangement guideline (PDF, 333KB)

Reporting guideline

• Resources Reporting Lodgement Guideline (PDF, 384KB)

• Native title process guideline (PDF, 505KB)
• Notification and advertising process - native title guideline (PDF, 294KB)
• Data acquisition authorities - native title guideline (PDF, 281KB)
• Pipeline licences - native title guideline (PDF, 305KB)
• Protection conditions - native title guideline (PDF, 258KB)

• Protocol for managing uncontrolled gas emissions from legacy boreholes (PDF, 340KB)
• Land information template (XLSX, 29KB)
• Adjoining land information template (XLSX, 14KB)
• Permit description template to be used with MyMinesOnline (PDF, 73KB)
• Adjoining authorities and land template to be used with MyMinesOnline (PDF, 62KB)
• At risk agreement (PDF, 22KB)
• At risk procedures (PDF, 14KB)

• Quantifying the volume of associated water taken under a mining lease or mineral development licence (PDF, 512KB).

Exploration

• Application to vary conditions of an exploration permit (PDF, 175KB)
• Applying for a mining lease for coal with a prospecting permit (PDF, 102KB)
• Assessment of priority for competitive applications (PDF, 383KB)
• Assessment of applications for exploration permits (PDF, 104KB)
• Conditional surrender of exploration permits (PDF, 99KB)
• Prescribed areas (excess and non-contiguous) (PDF, 108KB)
• Project-based exploration administration (PDF, 103KB)
• Renewal of exploration permits (PDF, 115KB)
• Renewal of exploration resource authorities within proposed national park or conservation park (PDF, 101KB)
• Work program and relinquishment conditions (PDF, 139KB)
• Application for extension of last renewed term of an exploration permit (PDF, 389KB)

Development

• Technical assessment of an application for a mineral development licence (PDF, 420KB)
• Applying for bulk sampling on a mineral development licence or exploration permit (PDF, 462KB)

Mining

• Deciding the term of a mining lease (PDF, 205KB)
• Minamata convention on mercury (PDF, 320KB)
• Mining lease notification and transitional arrangements (PDF, 105KB)
• Rock for building or monumental purposes (PDF, 638KB)

General

• Security assessment – mineral and coal resource authorities (PDF, 516KB)
• Security for mining claims (PDF, 750KB)

Petroleum and gas policies

• Declaration of a potential commercial area (PDF, 100KB)
• Project-based development plans (PDF, 161KB)
• Special amendment of an authority to prospect work program (PDF, 161KB)
• Relevant arrangements (PDF, 572KB)
• Complying with the Australian Market Supply Condition (PDF)

Miscellaneous policies

• Disqualification criteria and assessment (PDF, 822KB)
• Exceptional circumstances and exceptional events (PDF, 135KB)
• Excluding land subject to native title from petroleum resource authorities (PDF, 703KB)
• Excluding land subject to native title from mineral and coal resource authorities (PDF, 371KB)
• Minister’s power to impose, vary or remove a condition of an exploration permit or authority to prospect due to an exceptional event (PDF, 514KB)

The practice manual provides guidance on the provision of information for tenure administration.