Notify landowner when you apply for a mineral title

If you're applying for an exploration licence over pastoral land, you must also tell the manager of the pastoral property.

How to notify

You can use the landowner/land manager notice form below or write your own letter to the landowner and land manager.

Step 1. Notify landowners and land managers

Fill in section A and send the form to every landowner affected by the application.

You must send it along with the proposed work program and map.

Approved form 24 - section A notice of application PDF (698.7 KB)
Approved form 24 - section A notice of application DOCX (64.6 KB)

Exploration licence over pastoral land

If you're applying for an exploration licence over pastoral land, you must also fill in section B to notify the land manager.

Approved form 24 - section B notice of application PDF (717.4 KB)
Approved form 24 - section B notice of application DOCX (65.2 KB)

Email it to pastoralnotifications.dpif@nt.gov.au and they will forward the form to the land manager for you.

You should also copy titles.info@nt.gov.au (this will prove that you have attempted to make contact with the land manager).

Step 2. Submit proof of notice

No later than 14 days after you serve section A notice, and if required section B notice, you must provide proof of service to the department.

You're not required to provide copies of the notifications or registered post slips, but you must complete section C and send it to the department.

Approved form 24 - section C notice of application PDF (689.8 KB)
Approved form 24 - section C notice of application DOCX (63.1 KB)

Land owner or manager acknowledgement

This is for an exploration licence on pastoral land only. The landowner or manager is asked to sign the acknowledgement section of the form and return it to you within 14 days, but they're not obliged to do so.

You must post or email any acknowledgements you receive to the department as proof that you have begun the required land access consultation process:

Mineral Division
Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade
GPO Box 4550
Darwin NT 0801
titles.info@nt.gov.au

If the landowner or land manager doesn't respond, it does not hold up the processing of your application.

Objection period

This notice to the landowner does not start the process to object or make a submission about the application.

Read more about objections and submissions.

More information

To find out the engagement process with landowners/land managers when applying for a mineral exploration licence, get the flow diagram for pastoralist / land manager stakeholder engagement PDF (588.9 KB).

Read more about landowner notifications for exploration licences and extractive mineral exploration licences under mineral title: grant of tenure.