South Australian Current Regulations

MINING REGULATIONS 2020 - REG 3

3—Interpretation

        (1)         In these regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

"Act" means the Mining Act 1971;

"change in operations" means a change in relation to a tenement to which Part 8B Division 7 of the Act applies;

"compliance report" means a compliance report under regulation 77;

"corresponding law" means an Act of another State or a Territory that contains provisions that substantially correspond with the Mining Act 1971 ;

"Department" means the administrative unit of the Public Service that is responsible for assisting a Minister in the administration of the Act;

"designated Act" means—

            (a)         the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 ; or

            (b)         the Aboriginal Lands Trust Act 2013 ; or

            (c)         the A n angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 ; or

            (d)         the Environment Protection Act 1993 ; or

            (e)         the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 of the Commonwealth; or

            (f)         the Landscape South Australia Act 2019 ; or

            (g)         the Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act 1984 ; or

            (h)         the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 ; or

                  (i)         the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth; or

            (j)         the Native Vegetation Act 1991 ; or

            (k)         the Offshore Minerals Act 2000 ; or

            (l)         the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 ; or

            (m)         the Radiation Protection and Control Act 1982 ; or

            (n)         the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 ; or

            (o)         an Act of another State or a Territory that contains provisions that substantially correspond with an Act set out in paragraphs (a) to (n) (inclusive);

"designated material" has the meaning given by section 15AI of the Act;

"dimension stone" means stone that is cut, trimmed and finished to specific dimensions and shapes and includes cut stone, ashlars, monumental stone, roofing slate and flagging stone;

"industrial minerals" means the following:

            (a)         alunite;

            (b)         anatase;

            (c)         andalusite;

            (d)         barite;

            (e)         bentonite;

            (f)         calcrete;

            (g)         celestite;

            (h)         cement shale;

                  (i)         diamond;

            (j)         diatomite;

            (k)         dolomite;

            (l)         feldspar;

            (m)         fire clay;

            (n)         garnet;

            (o)         graphite;

            (p)         gypsum;

            (q)         ilmenite;

            (r)         kaolin;

            (s)         kyanite;

            (t)         leucoxene;

            (u)         lime sand;

                  (v)         magnesite;

            (w)         marble;

                  (x)         mica;

            (y)         micaceous hematite;

            (z)         monazite;

            (za)         palygorskite;

            (zb)         peat;

            (zc)         phosphate;

            (zd)         potash;

            (ze)         rutile;

            (zf)         salt;

            (zg)         silica;

            (zh)         silica sand;

            (zi)         sillimanite;

            (zj)         talc;

            (zk)         vermiculite;

            (zl)         wollastonite;

            (zm)         xenotime;

            (zn)         zircon;

            (zo)         any other mineral that would be an extractive mineral for the purposes of the Act but for the fact that it is mined for a purpose prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of "extractive minerals in section 6(1) of the Act;

"leading indicator criteria" means criteria used to give an early warning that a control strategy in a program under Part 10A of the Act may fail or be failing.

        (2)         For the purposes of paragraph (ab) of the definition of "declared equipment" in section 6(1) of the Act, mechanically driven equipment that is capable of drilling to depths of 2.5 metres or more below the ground in order to recover subsurface geological samples or information is prescribed.

        (3)         For the purposes of the definition of "exploring" or "exploration operations" in section 6(1) of the Act, the following activities are, in accordance with paragraph (d) of that definition, brought within the ambit of that definition:

            (a)         collecting a bulk sample required to evaluate the metallurgical and physical properties of a mineral deposit or the economic potential of such a deposit and rehabilitating the land from which the sample was taken to be as close as reasonably practicable to the state of the land before the sample was taken;

            (b)         undertaking geotechnical test work and rehabilitating the land on which the test work was undertaken to be as close as reasonably practicable to the state of the land before the test work was undertaken.

        (4)         The following are "prescribed purposes" under paragraph (a) of the definition of "extractive minerals" in section 6(1) of the Act:

            (a)         chemical, cement, lime and glass manufacture;

            (b)         metallurgical flux, refractories and industrial fillers;

            (c)         foundries, fertiliser, agricultural, jewellery and crafted ornamental uses;

            (d)         the production of dimension stone.