Exploration Graticules are used as the main boundaries for Exploration Licences since 1973 - GDA94 - Effective 1st July 2005

Exploration Graticules are used as the main boundaries for Exploration Licences since 1973 - GDA94 - Effective 1st July 2005

The areas occur usually when part of an Exploration Licence is relinquished. It means that no-one can apply over the vacant ground for usually 3 months from when the moratorium began. Refer to the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act (MRSDA) for more detail.

This data is now obsolete, current UDP data is available. Identifies all industrial land and the development status and size of each land parcel in hectares. Note: The industrial data now covers all of the State of Victoria having incorporated RDV's Audit of Industrial Land in Provincial Victoria with UDP Melbourne . Regional UDP work will provide the mechanism to update these areas on an ongoing basis. This information maps all industrial zoned land and land of industrial nature, ie. includes land within Special use zones, Airport Business Park, Business 3 Zones and Comprehensive Development Zone. Other zone types have been included in regional areas. Each land parcel is assessed as being either Unavaillable or Supply for industrial land and colour coded by a combination of zoning ans availability.

Tailings Dump Licences mainly licences from 1860 to 1930 Being digitized to help in identifying land where native title claims may be rejected.

Exploration Graticules are used as the main boundaries for Exploration Licences since 1973 - AGD66 - Expires 30th June 2005

Information on historical mining relics was gathered from a variety of sources. Information from David Bannear 2017 - Mining Historian Peter Ward 2019 - Public contributor - Victorian High Country Fred Sargent 2019 to 2022 - Public contributor - Victorian High Country (majority of sites) DELWP Heritage Victoria - 2019 (best refer to HERITAGE_INVENTORY and HERITAGE_REGISTER as supplied by Heritage Victoria) Peter Quinn - 2019 to 2022 - Public contributor Various others Fred Sargent was th efirst major contributor. His addition of data relied on our undertaking of keeping this data internal only so as the relics woudl be kept safe from destruction or removal. RELICTYPE as at 22/12/2022 are battery battery site boiler building chimney claim peg dam dredge drum engine fireplace forge foundation furnace heap hopper kiln loading area magazine mill miscellaneous mullock ore bucket oven pit prospects puddler race reef shovel sinkings site sluice steam engine tailings tailings dam tank terraces township tramway vat whim winch winze

Expired Extractive Industry Work Authorities extracted from MLHST under the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act (MRSDA) and prior to the 1st of January 2010 under the Eactractive Industries Development Act (EIDA).

The areas occur usually when part of an Exploration Licence is relinquished and the entire tenement has not expired.

Exploration Graticules Polygons for Zone 54 are used as the main boundaries for Exploration Licences since 1973 - GDA94 - Effective 1st July 2005