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Offshore Minerals Act 1999
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22 Minerals
22 Minerals
(1) A mineral is a naturally occurring substance or a naturally occurring mixture of substances.
Note—
This Act does not apply to petroleum (see section 35).
(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a mineral may be in the form of sand, gravel, clay, limestone, rock, evaporites, shale, oil-shale or coal.