Group Technical Reporting

Under certain circumstances, mineral titles may be grouped for technical reporting purposes. This allows titleholders to report exploration activities on a project basis and facilitates regional geophysical or geochemical surveys across adjacent titles. It is also a convenient way to group actual mining titles along with neighbouring titles held for ancillary purposes. Group technical reporting requires prior approval through tmt.drdpifr@nt.gov.au.

To be eligible for group reporting, the titles must be:

• the same type of title (eg, all variants of ELs can be grouped, MCs and MLs can be grouped, but ELs and MLs can't), and
• substantially contiguous (ideally with a side or corner in common), and
• held in at least one name in common, and
• relate to a single geological entity, and preferably
• worked simultaneously for a common target commodity.

All applications for group technical reporting must include a scaled map showing the titles involved and must address all the criteria above.

Note that a separate expenditure statement for each title is still required at the anniversary of the date of its grant even if group reporting has been granted.

If a title is removed from a reporting group or is the last remaining title of a group, its reporting date reverts to the anniversary of the date of grant.

Last Updated: 22 January 2009