Part 5Information

Part 5—Information 16—Compilation, keeping and provision of material (1) For the purposes of section 15AJ of the Act, a tenement holder must comply with the requirements set out in this regulation with respect to— (a) compiling or creating designated material referred to in this regulation (section 15AJ(1) of the Act); and (b) keeping designated material referred to in this regulation (section 15AJ(2) of the Act); and (c) providing designated material referred to in this regulation to the Director (section 15AJ(3) of the Act); and (d) providing for the form of any designated material provided to the Director (section 15AJ(5) of the Act). (2) Geological mapping: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such record created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (3) Surveys of workings: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (4) Geological samples, including drill hole core and samples: all drill hole core samples and other representative geological samples must be kept in accordance with guidelines issued by the Department for the term of the relevant tenement and for 7 years after the expiry, surrender, cancellation or forfeiture of the tenement to which the sample relates and must be retained by the tenement holder, or provided to the Director, in accordance with those guidelines (unless the Minister has authorised, on application by the tenement holder in a manner and form set out in the guidelines, the destruction or disposal of the samples). (5) Drill hole logs: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (6) Locations relating to geological samples including drill hole collar locations: these locations must be identified by using maps and coordinates that accurately show each location in accordance with any requirements determined by the Director and these maps and coordinates must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such maps and coordinates created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (7) Results of analysis and testing of samples: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (8) Records of geophysical surveys: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (9) Technical data, studies and reports: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such designated material created or finalised in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (10) Records of geochemistry: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (11) Supporting information and data associated with reserve or resource estimation: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular financial year must be provided electronically to the Director by the designated date for that financial year. (12) Records of airborne surveys under regulation 80: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (13) Records of remote sensing: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (14) Economic, environmental or social studies or reports: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such designated material created or finalised in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (15) Records of mineralogy and petrology studies: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (16) Scoping studies: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such studies created or finalised in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (17) Feasibility studies: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such studies created or finalised in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (18) Surface mapping (recording the geological features of an operating mine): complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (19) Drill hole photographs: these must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such photographs taken in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (20) Open data file compilations: complete and detailed records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (21) Technical data associated with exploration that demonstrates an increased inferred or indicated resource (JORC definitions or equivalent): this data must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such data created in a particular designated period must be provided electronically to the Director at the end of that particular designated period. (22) Production volume or quantity, and quality and value, records for a mining lease or private mine: these records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records must be provided electronically to the Director if so requested by the Director. (23) Records that evidence costs of a kind prescribed by regulation 11: these records must be kept in an electronic form for 7 years and any such records must be provided electronically to the Director if so requested by the Director. (24) Technical data associated with the measurement of criteria in a program or plan approved under Part 10A or 11B of the Act: this data must be kept in an electronic form for the term of the relevant tenement (or in the case of a private mine, until the private mine is surrendered) and any such data must be provided electronically to the Minister on request by the Minister. (25) Technical and environmental data used to prepare a proposal accompanying an application for a mining lease, retention lease, miscellaneous purposes licence or an application for a change under Part 8B Division 7 of the Act: this data must be kept in an electronic form for the term of the relevant tenement and any such data must be provided electronically to the Minister on request by the Minister. (26) In this regulation— designated period means— (i) in relation to a private mine—each 12 month period ending on 30 June in each year; and (ii) in any other case—each 12 month period ending on the anniversary of the day on which the relevant mineral tenement was granted; or 17—Release of material For the purposes of section 15AL(3)(d) of the Act, any designated material provided to the Director under this Part must not be released under section 15AL of the Act until— (a) the expiry of the period of 5 years from the date on which the designated material was so provided to the Director; or (b) the expiry, cancellation or forfeiture of the tenement to which the designated material relates; or (c) the surrender, relinquishment or reduction (in whole or in part) of the tenement to which the designated material relates (being, in a case involving a part of a tenement, the designated material that relates to that part); or (d) the designated material has been made publicly available; or (e) a holder of the tenement consents to the release of the designated material, whichever occurs first.