Policy and procedure for mining and resources (BQ)
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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
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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
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Renewal guideline
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)
- Rent deferral for resource authorities because of hardship (PDF, 303KB)
Reporting guideline
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- 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)
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- 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)
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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, 356KB)
- 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)
- Technical and financial capability assessment for certain opal and gemstone authorities (PDF, 286KB)
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The practice manual provides guidance on the provision of information for tenure administration.
Practice number Title Version Practice direction 1 Submission of geophysical survey data under resource legislation (PDF, 444KB) 2.3 Practice direction 2 Production and/or storage testing (PDF, 224KB) 2.1 Practice direction 3 Submission of statistical data relating to coal production and sales (PDF, 516KB) 2.3 Practice direction 4 Boundary identification for mining resource authorities (PDF, 227KB) 2.3 Practice direction 5 Minerals and coal reporting (PDF, 700KB) 1.3 Practice direction 6 Petroleum and gas reporting (PDF, 2MB) 1.1 Practice direction 7 Submission of Minerals Annual Statistics relation to production and sales
(PDF, 620KB)1.2
- Last updated
- 14 September 2026
- Last reviewed
- 21 February 2023