Mineral titles forms and guidelines

Use this form to report on the expenditure and detail the proposed expenditure for the next year:

Mineral exploration and mining expenditure reporting (approved form 17) PDF (40.4 KB)
Mineral exploration and mining expenditure reporting (approved form 17) DOCX (60.2 KB)

This guideline outlines the requirements under the legislation for exploration licences (EL’s) to comply with expenditure conditions, partial cancellation for non-compliance and approved expenditure project areas:

Guideline 3: expenditure conditions   PDF (161.8 KB)
Guideline 3: expenditure conditions DOCX (134.8 KB)

This guideline describes admissible expenditure for EL, ELR and ML titles under the act and also provides an indication of acceptable minimum expenditure for the first two operational years of an exploration licence:

Guideline 6: minimum admissible expenditure   PDF (54.1 KB)
Guideline 6: minimum admissible expenditure DOCX (57.3 KB)

Use this form to apply to amalgamate technical and expenditure reports for a project:

Amalgamated reporting - application and amendment (approved form 18) PDF (40.6 KB)
Amalgamated reporting - application and amendment (approved form 18) DOCX (59.1 KB)

This guideline outlines the various requirements under the legislation in making an application for the amalgamation of reports:

Guideline 2: amalgamated reporting PDF (41.1 KB)
Guideline 2: amalgamated reporting   DOCX (50.9 KB)

Use this form to report extractive mineral production for sand, soil, gravel, crushed rock and dimension stone:

Extractive production return form (approved form 23) PDF (137.3 KB)
Extractive production return form (approved form 23)  DOCX (56.1 KB)

Use this form to report extractive mineral production for metallic commodities, diamonds, gemstones, limestone/quicklime, uranium and vermiculite:

Mineral production return form (approved form 22) PDF (161.6 KB)
Mineral production return form (approved form 22) DOCX (57.1 KB)

Use this form to report mineral resources and ore reserves:

Mineral resources and ore reserves return form (approved form 32) XLSX (175.3 KB)

Use this form when you submit geological drill core and cutting samples:

Geological sample submission (drill core and cuttings) (approved form 20) PDF (164.9 KB)
Geological sample submission (drill core and cuttings) (approved form 20)  DOCX (63.0 KB)

Follow this technical instruction for submitting drill cores samples to the department:

Geological sample submission procedure (core and cuttings) PDF (330.3 KB)
Geological sample submission procedure (core and cuttings) DOCX (743.6 KB)