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Fossicking Licences

In the state of Queensland, you need a Fossicking Licence to search for minerals such as gemstones or gold. You are only allowed to use hand tools such as picks, shovels, sieves etc. Metal detectors are also covered. For more details and a guide to the legislation, please refer to the Department of Natural Resources and Mines.
Sorry, unfortunately No more MINERS RIGHTS, a thing of the past! (that's another story)  Instead the state of Queensland gives us:

FOSSICKING LICENCES           New Fees 1/7/08

 

1 Month

6 Month

 1 Year

Individual

$ 6.15

$ 22.75

$ 38.05

Family

$ 8.75

$ 29.10

$ 50.90

Club

 

 

$ 64.30


In order to conduct your hobby of fossicking legally, you will need a fossicking licence. Also you will require the permission of the property owner (grazing lease holder). He should actually sign the back of the licence and can impose conditions. He is within his rights to refuse entry to his grazing lease. Him signing the fossicking licence is actually a good thing for both parties as it covers the grazing leaseholder for public liability. You will need a separate licence for each state in Australia. Sorry, thems the rulz.

Coins and relics are not minerals so you don't need a fossicking licence to detect for them (on a beach etc.). Make sure you have permission if detecting on private land. better still get yourself a fossicking licence anyway.

At this stage no on-line applications are possible, Nth Qld Miners Den issue fossicking licences over the counter.
You can download and print out the
Fossicking Licence Application Form and mail or fax it with payment to us and we will mail you your licence.
 


Metal detector users, fossickers :
If visiting
Mount Mulligan including Thornborough, Kingsborough please be aware that this area is a working cattle station and permission to camp overnight is required.

Mt Mulligan sign

 


Metal detector users, fossickers : Georgetown Region detecting access at Flat Creek Station for details check out www.geocities.com/flatcreekstation/


A long time ago the government encouraged mining and prospecting.

NOTICE TO PROSPECTORS

Department of Mines, Brisbane, 20th of February, 1917

Free Government Examinations and Assays

Prospectors finding in Queensland minerals which they believe to be of commercial value may send samples of same to the nearest Warden or Mining Registrar, who is instructed to forward them for identification or assay to the Department of Mines, Brisbane, or the Government Assay Office at Cloncurry.

The examples will be examined or assayed free of charge, and the results sent to the finders through the Warden.

Each sample must be properly marked for identification, and be accompanied by a letter giving the name and address of the finder and the approximate locality where it has been discovered.

 Other conditions which it is desirable to observe in selecting and forwarding samples are specified in a leaflet issued by the Department and obtainable from the local Wardens or Mining Registrar.

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