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Victorian Miners Right information and questions
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<blockquote data-quote="Goldpick" data-source="post: 124646" data-attributes="member: 1695"><p>Worse case scenario is that Victoria may end up like SA, with fossicking license free, but with heavy restrictions on equipment usage and limited areas to prospect in. If they have have dramatically cut the fee for a miners right, losing the right to own the gold you find may be on the cards, with the crown effectively owning anything you find - as it is in SA. Maybe they will scrap the miners right for a permit based system for State Forest access, with daily/monthly/annual fees to make up for lost revenue from scrapping the miners right. Doesn't make much sense to drop the Miners Right fee by so much, without have other avenues to make up for lost revenue.</p><p></p><p>Taking away the right to own and sell the gold you find takes away the monetary value of the gold, which would likely to result in less people bothering to take up prospecting for that purpose, and reclassify fossicking purely as a recreation vs prospecting to make a few $$$ on your finds.</p><p></p><p>I am probably getting a bit ahead of myself, and this may not be the case, but you never know what is on the cards with the pollies these days. Much easier and cheaper for the Govt to manage prospecting / fossicking by locking up areas and throwing away the key, along with the proposed equipment/fossicking restrictions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldpick, post: 124646, member: 1695"] Worse case scenario is that Victoria may end up like SA, with fossicking license free, but with heavy restrictions on equipment usage and limited areas to prospect in. If they have have dramatically cut the fee for a miners right, losing the right to own the gold you find may be on the cards, with the crown effectively owning anything you find - as it is in SA. Maybe they will scrap the miners right for a permit based system for State Forest access, with daily/monthly/annual fees to make up for lost revenue from scrapping the miners right. Doesn't make much sense to drop the Miners Right fee by so much, without have other avenues to make up for lost revenue. Taking away the right to own and sell the gold you find takes away the monetary value of the gold, which would likely to result in less people bothering to take up prospecting for that purpose, and reclassify fossicking purely as a recreation vs prospecting to make a few $$$ on your finds. I am probably getting a bit ahead of myself, and this may not be the case, but you never know what is on the cards with the pollies these days. Much easier and cheaper for the Govt to manage prospecting / fossicking by locking up areas and throwing away the key, along with the proposed equipment/fossicking restrictions. [/QUOTE]
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