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NQMA Making Detecting On Leases Illegal.
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<blockquote data-quote="Rockwall" data-source="post: 526222" data-attributes="member: 10067"><p>So you want total exclusion? Access even to an EPM would be at your discretion? Where would that leave property owners who currently eke out their existence by charging for detecting/camping? I gladly pay. Where would that leave small towns like Forsayth that rely on an influx of people each winter to do a bit of detecting? I know of a situation where a former mines department employee has taken up several EPM's waiting for this to happen. I shudder every time I see someone posting their finds knowing that if there isn't an EPM in that area there soon will be. Especially the videos that get put up showing the surrounding terrain etc. Not hard to get an idea of the location if you have knowledge of the area. I noticed some videos on youtube from a bloke who did a detecting trip this year, starting in NSW and up through Qld. It was obviously just to video everything and show how good he is, without even the permission of the property owner. Let alone paying to camp etc. Driving around knocking over every tree that got in his way. Then he goes home to NSW and leaves us to put up with the consequences of having properties locked up. (I know there are a majority of decent people who come up this way)</p><p>I would hope that if the rules are changed then something would be put in place to prevent people tying up huge tracts of land just so they can charge for permission to access that land. Not everyone who holds an EPM is a genuine miner like yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rockwall, post: 526222, member: 10067"] So you want total exclusion? Access even to an EPM would be at your discretion? Where would that leave property owners who currently eke out their existence by charging for detecting/camping? I gladly pay. Where would that leave small towns like Forsayth that rely on an influx of people each winter to do a bit of detecting? I know of a situation where a former mines department employee has taken up several EPM's waiting for this to happen. I shudder every time I see someone posting their finds knowing that if there isn't an EPM in that area there soon will be. Especially the videos that get put up showing the surrounding terrain etc. Not hard to get an idea of the location if you have knowledge of the area. I noticed some videos on youtube from a bloke who did a detecting trip this year, starting in NSW and up through Qld. It was obviously just to video everything and show how good he is, without even the permission of the property owner. Let alone paying to camp etc. Driving around knocking over every tree that got in his way. Then he goes home to NSW and leaves us to put up with the consequences of having properties locked up. (I know there are a majority of decent people who come up this way) I would hope that if the rules are changed then something would be put in place to prevent people tying up huge tracts of land just so they can charge for permission to access that land. Not everyone who holds an EPM is a genuine miner like yourself. [/QUOTE]
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