Guide to Archives Relating to Mining in the Northern Territory
Northern Territory Government and Local Government Organisations
The records series within this category are listed under the title of the NT Government or Local Government organisation which created the records. In some cases, where the records spanned the control of several organisations, the series will be listed under the title of the transferring organisation. In such cases a list of predecessor organisations is included.
Series entries include the control number (NTRS or F), the series title and the date range of the series.
- ASSAY OFFICE, ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth)
- DEPARTMENT OF MINES & ENERGY
- DEPARTMENT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, MINES BRANCH (Commonwealth)
- GOVERNMENT BATTERY, MARANBOY (Commonwealth)
- GOVERNMENT BATTERY, TENNANT CREEK (Commonwealth)
- MINES BRANCH - ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth)
- MINES BRANCH - DARWIN (Commonwealth)
- MINES BRANCH - HARTS RANGE (Commonwealth)
- MINES BRANCH - WAUCHOPE CREEK (Commonwealth)
- MINES BRANCH TENNANT CREEK (Commonwealth)
ASSAY OFFICE, ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth)
F 371 Application for Assays 1936-1937
F 372 Assay Reports 1935-1937
F 924 Assay Registers and Indexes 1934-1937
GOVERNMENT BATTERY, MARANBOY (Commonwealth)
F 382 Applications for Mineral Leases, Maranboy 1952
F 383 Correspondence files of Inspector of Mines 1949-1950
GOVERNMENT BATTERY, TENNANT CREEK (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agencies:
1939-1942 : No. 2 Government Battery, Tennant Creek
1942-1963 : No. 3 Government Battery, Tennant Creek (By 1950 known as Central Government Battery)
F 485 Correspondence Files 1939-1942
F 486 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1939-1942
GOVERNMENT BATTERY, TENNANT CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 487 Correspondence - unregistered 1941-1950
F 1392 Cyanide Log 1939-1942
F 1393 Assay Register 1939-1942
F 1395
1) Crushing Record Book 1940-1942
2) Copy of Regulations under the Mining Development Ordinance 1939-1940
NTRS 1472 Records and Returns 1958-1963
MINES BRANCH - ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agencies
1906-1920 : Government Cyanide Plant & Battery McDonnell Ranges Warden
1920-1939 : Police Station, Alice Springs, Warden (known under varying titles)
1939-1954 : Mines Branch (1) Alice Springs (known under varying titles)
F 150 Notifications of Appointment of Registered Agent - single number series 1932-1940
F 151 Notifications of Appointment of Agent - unnumbered 1932-1936
F 152 Registered Agreements - unnumbered 1931-1932
F 153 Registered Agreements - single number series 1932-1938
F 154 Registered Agreements - annual single number series 1939-1940
F 159 Applications for Mining Leases, Central Australia Register 1931-1932
F 338 Correspondence File, Mineral Oil Lease (Recorded by the Director of the Mines Branch) 1942-1943
F 343 Correspondence File - unregistered 1939-1954
F 343 Correspondence File - 'WO' series 1950-1954
F 344 Correspondence relating to Preparation of Quarterly Statements 1941-1943
F 346 Applications for Mining Leases - single number series 1932-1935
F 347 Applications for Mining Leases 'AS' series 1936-1940
F 348 Applications for Mining Leases 'A' series 1935-1936
F 350 Applications for Mining Claims 'A' series
F 351 Transfers of Claims, etc - unnumbered 1932-1933
F 352 Transfers of Claims, etc - single number series 1932-1940
F 354 Claim Exemption Certificates (six months) 1938-1940
F 355 Applications for Exemptions, not proceeded with or not registered 1935-1939
F 356 Lease Exemption Certificates (one month) 1937-1939
F 357 Lease Exemption Certificates (three months) 1937-1940
F 358 Lease Exemption Certificates (six months) 1937-1940
F 359 Papers of Warden's Court, Alice Springs 1933-1953
F 360 Lists of Mining Leases and Mining Lease Applications 1934-1937
F 361 Office copies of Mineral Leases, Central Australia Register 1930-1934
F 362 Correspondence Files - unregistered (Mining Warden) 1928-1939
F 363 Miscellaneous Papers of Chief Warden and Warden, Alice Springs 1928-1937
F 364 Correspondence Files - single number series 1938-1941
F 365 Applications for Mineral Prospecting Areas 1941
F 366 Tribute Agreements 1941
F 367 Application for Exemption - annual single number series 1941
F 368 Correspondence Files, Mineral Reef Reward Claims 1945-1946
F 369 Record Dealings 1940-1954
F 370 Correspondence relating to Assays 1953
F 376 Applications for Amalgamation - unregistered 1933-1934
F 377 Amalgamation Certificates 1934-1937
F 381 Correspondence Files - unregistered - relating to Kurrunid Goldfields 1940-1948
MINES BRANCH - ALICE SPRINGS (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agencies
1940-1946 : Mines Branch (1) Head Office
1946-1953 : Mines Branch (1) Darwin
1953-1960 : Mines Branch (1) Head Office
F 470 Duplicate Applications, Inspecting Surveyor 1952-1953
F 745
1) Register of Ore Returns 1899-1916
2) Statements of Ore Treated 1899-1901
F 1086 Warden's Registers:
1) Registrations of Suspension of Working Quartz and Alluvial Claims & Leases 1906-1940
2) Registration of Business Sites & Licences 1906-1938
3) Registration of Suspension of Working Gold and Mineral Mining Leases 1906-1940
4) Registration of Water Rights 1906-1938
5) Record of Registrations of Quartz Stacks 1938-1939
6) Registrations of Machine & Garden Sites 1907-1940
7) Amalgamations Registered 1906-1938
8) Transfers Registered 1906-1939
9) Shares Registered 1906-1933
10) Exemption of Business Residence, Machinery Area or Water Right from use 1906-1932
11) Miner's Rights Claims 1906-1940
12) Agreements Registered 1912-1940
13) Miner's Rights 1906-1940
14) Inspection of Records 1906-1930
15) Applications for Gold Mining leases 1906-1935
16) Applications for Mineral Leases 1913-1934
17) Registration of Agents 1932-1940
F 1087 Warden's Registers:
1) Applications for Protected Mining Leases 1929-1940
2) Gold Mining Leases, Central Australia 1934
3) Powers of Attorney 1940-1941
F 1310 Correspondence Files 'R' (Royalty) - single number series 1941-1944
MINES BRANCH - DARWIN (Commonwealth) - and Predecessor Agencies
1940-1946 : Mines Branch (1) Head Office
1946-1953 : Mines Branch (1) Darwin
1953-1960 : Mines Branch (1) Head Office
F 1143 Register of :
1) Residence Areas, District A 1942-1948
2) Business Areas, District A 1949-1954
3) Machinery Areas, District B 1945-1957
4) Water Rights, District A 1950-1955
5) Mineral Claims, District A 1948-1956
F 1144 Register of:
1) Garden Area, District A 1945-1956
2) Dredging Claims, District A 1956
F 1164 Register of:
1) Business Areas, District B 1940-1949
2) Register Areas, District B 1949-1950
3) Machinery Areas, District B 1953-1956
4) Mineral Claims, District B 1953-1956
5) Reward Claims, District B 1954-1955
F 1165 Register of:
1) Water Rights, District B 1940-1956
2) Garden Areas, District B 1945-1955
3) Dredging Claims, District B 1945-1957
F 1197 Register of:
1) Machinery Areas, District D 1949-1953
2) Tailings Areas, District D 1949-1956
3) Tailings Licences, District D 1951
F 1198 Register of:
1) Water Rights, District D 1940-1953
2) Mineral Claims, District D 1952-1955
3) Residential Leases, District D 1952-1957
F 1199 Register of
1) Machinery Areas, District D 1940-1953
2) Residence Areas, District D 1943-1950
3) Garden Areas, District D 1944-1956
4) Business Areas, District D 1947
F 1297 Correspondence Files, relating to Gold Buyers Licences - single number series 1941-1948
F 1316 Darwin Numerical Register of Miners Rights 1946-1960
F 1317 Darwin Alphabetical Miners Rights Register 1946-1959
MINES BRANCH - HARTS RANGE (Commonwealth)
F 384 Outward Letter Book - single number series 1943-1944
F 385 Outward Letter Book 1947-1948
MINES BRANCH TENNANT CREEK (Commonwealth)
1933-1939 : Police Station, Barrow Creek - Warden (Known under varying titles)
1939-1968 : Mines Branch (1), Tennant Creek (Known under varying titles)
F 155 Correspondence Files - single number series 1933-1941
F 156 Correspondence Files - single number series 1935-1944
F 157 Correspondence Files - annual single number series 1941-1951
F 158 Applications for Mining Claims - single number series 1933-1940
F 160 Applications for Mining Leases, Tennant Creek 1935-1942
F 161 Plaint Files, Warden's Court - annual single number series 1935-1942
F 162 Plaint Files, Warden's Court, Warramunga 1940
F 163 Name Index Folder, Business & Residence Areas and Current Miners' Rights 1937-1939
F 164 Registered Agreement 1934-1935
F 165 Maps & Diagrams of Mining Claims & Leases c.1935
F 166 List of Miners; Rights Issued 1935-1941
F 167 Register of Substitution of Names 1939-1940
F 168 Register of Liens 1934-1940
F 169 Register of Declarations of Trust 1934-1940
F 170 Registers of Appointment of Agents 1935-1940
F 171 Files relating to creation, registration and Transfer of Shares 1933-1935
F 172 Files relating to Powers of Attorney 1940-1952
F 173
1) Cash Book 1937-1938
2) Register of Mining Leases & Rentals 1938-1941
3) Registrars Utility Log Book 1941
F 174 Indexed Register of Miners' Rights 1943-1948
F 175 Application for Prospecting Assistance - single number series 1936-1938
F 176 Applications for Prospecting Assistance- unnumbered 1936-1938
F 177 Applications for Prospecting Assistance - annual single number series 1939-1940
F 178 Applications for Prospecting Assistance - unnumbered 1940-1941
F 179 Correspondence Files relating to Acquisition and Cartage of Mining Equipment 1942-1943
F 181 Correspondence File relating to Prospecting Assistance 1940
F 184 Correspondence File relating to Mining Accidents - unnumbered 1938-1940
F 185 Correspondence File relating to Mining Accident - annual single number series 1942
F 186 Applications for Substitution of Names, Barrow Creek 1935-1937
F 187 Folders of Correspondence 1935-1943
F 353 Transfer of Claims, etc - single number series 1935
F 373 Applications for Mining Leases, 'BK' (Barrow Creek District) series 1936-1940
F 374 Applications for Mining Leases, 'BK' (Barrow Creek District) series 1936-1940
F 375 Applications for Exemption 1933-1940
F 378 Caveats, Tennant Creek 1933-1934
F 379 Papers relating to Forfeiture of Leases 1934-1936
F 380 Correspondence relating to Forfeiture of Leases 1936-1938
F 393 Record of Dealings 1940-1949
F 394 Tribute Agreements 1935-1939
F 471 File of Mining Correspondence for Attention 1934-1935
F 472 Correspondence File relating to Creation of Shares in Lease applications subsequently cancelled 1933-1934
F 473 Application for Exemption - single number series 1936
F 474 Application for amalgamation - annual single number series 1941
F 475 Correspondence Files - unregistered 1935-1943
F 476 Miscellaneous Papers (relating to Warramunga and Kurrundi Fields to Government Battery and to Air Raid Precautions 1935-1943
F 484 Correspondence - unregistered 1950-1951
F 578 Battery Rules & Conditions of Purchase of Tailings 1946
F 579 Papers relating to Gold Production Figures 1936-1947
F 580 Papers relating to transfers of Authorised Holdings and Prospecting Areas 1946
F 581 Correspondence Files - unregistered 1948-1949
F 582 Papers relating to Plaints - Mining Tenements other than Leases 1946
F 583 Papers relating to Gold Mining Lease of 789, Eldorado Tennant Creek Ltd (and W Lippet Gold Mines N.L., G.M.L. 47E) - Records and Statistics relating to Gold Production 1948-1950
F 584 Correspondence File relating to Protected Gold Mining Lease Application 567 1946
F 590 Notices of Applications for Gold Mining Leases 1951
F 591 Notice of Application for A Mining Tenement other than a Lease 1951
F 592 Applications for Exemption - annual single number series 1951
F 1095 Register of Applications of Protected Mining Leases 1940
F 1096 Register of:
1) Gold Leases 1933-1934
2) Amalgamation of Leases (under letter X) 1933-1935
3) Miners' Rights (under letter X) 1933-1934
4) Appointments of Agents (under letter Y & W) 1933-1935
5) Creation of Shares (under 2, 4, X & Y) 1933-1935
F 1097 Register of:
1) Surveyed Mineral Leases 1938-1939
2) Mineral Lease Applications 1938-1940
3) Gold Lease Applications 1938-1940
F 1035 Register of Royalty Returns with index 1940
NTRS 1469 Correspondence files - annual single number series with 'TM' prefix 1953-1968
NTRS 1470 Unregistered Correspondence & Applications for Mining Leases c.1949-1956
NTRS 1471 Mining Tenement Files - single number series with alphabetical prefixes c.1940-1957
NTRS 1472 Records and Returns 1958-1973
MINES BRANCH - WAUCHOPE CREEK (Commonwealth)
F 458 Plans and diagrams of Wauchope Mines c.1942
