sec.10Meaning of operations

### sec.10 Meaning of operations Operations are activities carried on principally for, or in connection with, exploring for, winning or treating, minerals or hard rock and include the following— extracting, loading, transporting, crushing, concentrating, storing, smelting, electrowinning, leaching and processing of minerals or hard rock; disposing of mineral or waste products in connection with winning, extracting or processing minerals or hard rock; constructing, erecting, maintaining or demolishing of any dam, excavation, building, plant, machinery or equipment that is required for winning or treating minerals or hard rock or the disposal of mineral or waste products; rehabilitating of a place after operations. The following are not operations — winning clay for and manufacture of bricks and other ceramics; airborne geophysical surveys; fossicking; smelting, refining, stockpiling and processing operations on land that— are not adjoining or adjacent to mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; or are adjoining or adjacent to, but are not an integral part of, mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; transport to and from a mine on public roads or public railways or within a pipeline; air transport to and from a mine; pastoral activities; underground gasification activities on land the subject of— a mineral development licence or mining lease for activities relating to mineral (f); or an exploration permit if the chief inspector has made a declaration under section 47A ; an operation exempted by regulation. s 10 amd 2008 No. 33 s 108 ; 2024 No. 34 s 150 (sec.10-ssec.1) Operations are activities carried on principally for, or in connection with, exploring for, winning or treating, minerals or hard rock and include the following— extracting, loading, transporting, crushing, concentrating, storing, smelting, electrowinning, leaching and processing of minerals or hard rock; disposing of mineral or waste products in connection with winning, extracting or processing minerals or hard rock; constructing, erecting, maintaining or demolishing of any dam, excavation, building, plant, machinery or equipment that is required for winning or treating minerals or hard rock or the disposal of mineral or waste products; rehabilitating of a place after operations. (sec.10-ssec.2) The following are not operations — winning clay for and manufacture of bricks and other ceramics; airborne geophysical surveys; fossicking; smelting, refining, stockpiling and processing operations on land that— are not adjoining or adjacent to mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; or are adjoining or adjacent to, but are not an integral part of, mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; transport to and from a mine on public roads or public railways or within a pipeline; air transport to and from a mine; pastoral activities; underground gasification activities on land the subject of— a mineral development licence or mining lease for activities relating to mineral (f); or an exploration permit if the chief inspector has made a declaration under section 47A ; an operation exempted by regulation. - (a) extracting, loading, transporting, crushing, concentrating, storing, smelting, electrowinning, leaching and processing of minerals or hard rock; - (b) disposing of mineral or waste products in connection with winning, extracting or processing minerals or hard rock; - (c) constructing, erecting, maintaining or demolishing of any dam, excavation, building, plant, machinery or equipment that is required for winning or treating minerals or hard rock or the disposal of mineral or waste products; - (d) rehabilitating of a place after operations. - (a) winning clay for and manufacture of bricks and other ceramics; - (b) airborne geophysical surveys; - (c) fossicking; - (d) smelting, refining, stockpiling and processing operations on land that— (i) are not adjoining or adjacent to mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; or (ii) are adjoining or adjacent to, but are not an integral part of, mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; - (i) are not adjoining or adjacent to mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; or - (ii) are adjoining or adjacent to, but are not an integral part of, mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; - (e) transport to and from a mine on public roads or public railways or within a pipeline; - (f) air transport to and from a mine; - (g) pastoral activities; - (h) underground gasification activities on land the subject of— (i) a mineral development licence or mining lease for activities relating to mineral (f); or (ii) an exploration permit if the chief inspector has made a declaration under section 47A ; - (i) a mineral development licence or mining lease for activities relating to mineral (f); or - (ii) an exploration permit if the chief inspector has made a declaration under section 47A ; - (i) an operation exempted by regulation. - (i) are not adjoining or adjacent to mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; or - (ii) are adjoining or adjacent to, but are not an integral part of, mines where minerals or hard rock are excavated; - (i) a mineral development licence or mining lease for activities relating to mineral (f); or - (ii) an exploration permit if the chief inspector has made a declaration under section 47A ;