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Using a dredge in Australia for recreational prospecting is illegal - information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 126432"><p>A few points-</p><p>1- Mining Laws are State administered as per the Australian Constitution. It would need hell to freeze over for change to happen. So no way a licence would be legal for the whole country.</p><p>2- Secondly you need 500 paid up members to form a political party. Membership could be a dollar each.</p><p>3- Any device with moving parts used to extract gravel is illegal.</p><p>4- No licence at all? Are you kidding?? We need the Miners Right to stay. Without it we are gone. It's the one thing the government cannot take from us and believe me they have tried.</p><p>5- Dredging is illegal in any form and with the work going on behind the scenes to stop sluicing it is a subject we should all leave alone, for now at least.</p><p>6- Prospecting in reserves, historical areas, and watercourses. We are hanging on to what we have as best we can, in spite of the efforts of the Greens to boot us out. Need to leave that one alone too. Look at what happened with the VEAC investigation into new prospecting areas in N/P's. It backfired, as I said it could and now we are facing an onslaught of action to ban the use of sluice boxes. Sometimes it is better to not wave the red flag in front of the bull.</p><p>7- Prospecting Rangers- I put this to the department 10 years ago. Suggested that some areas could be policed by experienced prospectors to ensure that rules etc were being observed. As they rightly said, The Park Rangers have enough difficulty policing mining laws. A civilian would have no hope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest, post: 126432"] A few points- 1- Mining Laws are State administered as per the Australian Constitution. It would need hell to freeze over for change to happen. So no way a licence would be legal for the whole country. 2- Secondly you need 500 paid up members to form a political party. Membership could be a dollar each. 3- Any device with moving parts used to extract gravel is illegal. 4- No licence at all? Are you kidding?? We need the Miners Right to stay. Without it we are gone. It's the one thing the government cannot take from us and believe me they have tried. 5- Dredging is illegal in any form and with the work going on behind the scenes to stop sluicing it is a subject we should all leave alone, for now at least. 6- Prospecting in reserves, historical areas, and watercourses. We are hanging on to what we have as best we can, in spite of the efforts of the Greens to boot us out. Need to leave that one alone too. Look at what happened with the VEAC investigation into new prospecting areas in N/P's. It backfired, as I said it could and now we are facing an onslaught of action to ban the use of sluice boxes. Sometimes it is better to not wave the red flag in front of the bull. 7- Prospecting Rangers- I put this to the department 10 years ago. Suggested that some areas could be policed by experienced prospectors to ensure that rules etc were being observed. As they rightly said, The Park Rangers have enough difficulty policing mining laws. A civilian would have no hope. [/QUOTE]
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