Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Subject to
subsection (2), the Minister may invite applications for the grant of a mining
licence over reserved blocks.
(2) Applications may
be invited for a licence covering a group of reserved blocks only if the group
forms a discrete area.
(3) The Minister is to
invite applications by publishing a tender block licence notice for the
licence in the Gazette .
Note:
1. A mining licence
may cover not more than 20 tender blocks (see section 219).
2. A mining licence
might be made available by a tender block notice if a mineral deposit in the
area had already been identified and sufficient information was already
available to justify the issue of a mining licence rather than an exploration
licence.