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Post by madtuna on Feb 20, 2012 15:42:06 GMT 10
Hi Taz, what about people who pan, sluice and detect? Wouldn't they then have to pay 3 seperate licences or a more expensive class 3 licence?
A miners right is what it is. It is a right protected under law to enable you to undertake certain activities. Currently in NSW you have no rights. You have no protection under law. Those activities can be made illegal in a flash through some back room wheeling and dealing by some party pushing some other agenda to secure the support of an independant or the green lobby.
It is much harder to take away something protected by law with a paid for licence or right.
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Post by shivan on Feb 20, 2012 15:59:40 GMT 10
Iam sorry but i dont understand how people sluicing are more likely to get more gold than those detecting With any method of prospecting your only going to find gold if it is there. Ill admit that so far i have found more gold sluicing (a whopping 2G ) than detecting but that could change with one find whilst detecting. Or in otherwords (in my opinion only) the detectorist has more chance of finding larger finds than anybody panning or sluicing unless the sluicer is in a mining operation. The miners right in my opinion would be the one i back not a fossicking license as i said before i dont want to pay a fee just to enjoy my hobby but i dont mind paying a fee if i know that it means my fossicking rights are being protected and fought for.
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Post by detecta2 on Feb 20, 2012 16:04:37 GMT 10
I live in nsw ,and I've always got vic miners right up to date and yes i'm also a PMAV member,and a big YES would support anything in NSW to support freedom to detect and prospect, we definately need an association,need a couple of enthusiastic brainy prospectors wth nothing better to do, to kick it off,I'm ,self includedsure there would be a lot of blokes that would put there hands up to help, lick the envelopes so to speak. phill
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Post by donnybrook on Feb 20, 2012 17:20:06 GMT 10
Again thanks. Miners rights and permits to fossick are different. Different in each state to be correct. We want a universal licence (lisence when I went to school). More importantly an ability to pursue,chase, and whatever you or anyone would call it a hobby. You have to be completely cracked to do it. Not many people throw good money in for bad,but we do. It's a ladies,family and mens thing. It's our hobby. donnybrook
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Post by darylr on Feb 22, 2012 15:44:02 GMT 10
I wonder if this is still valid. Belonged to my Great Grandfather.
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Post by nugget893 on Feb 22, 2012 16:45:40 GMT 10
Darylr I think it might be slightly out of date by now, by about 122 years, but it would be worth a lot more than 5 shillings to a collector. I hope you will never sell it though mate. Nugget893
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Post by darylr on Feb 23, 2012 7:59:23 GMT 10
Hi Nugget, No, it will never be sold. It has pride of place among other family memoriabilia including all of the diaries kept by my Grandfather when he travelled to France and England with the Australian Troops during WW1
regards
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Post by byronbinalong on Mar 2, 2012 8:42:11 GMT 10
All for it if it opens areas up and NOT close areas and the revenue goes back into our hobby or interest ... should be for all forms of fossicking - pan - detector etc
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Post by donnybrook on Mar 2, 2012 14:23:14 GMT 10
We need one universal licence. At one time we went to a court in NSW and acquired a fossicking licence. In different states it also differed. That is you could take out a miners right for different groups of minerals in a declared field.Fossicking is completely different but as I said in places like Sapphire etc you could claim a small area. A universal licence is what is needed and if someone were to find something worth pursuing then the right should be there to undertake small scale mining unless on an EL or established mining lease. donnybrook
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Post by rossco on Apr 14, 2012 21:16:00 GMT 10
I too support the idea of a miners right for which i would gladly pay. H owever IT SHOULD BE JUST WHAT IT SAYS IT IS: A RIGHT TO FOSSICK FOR GOLD OR OTHER METALS OR GEMS.The fishing licence serves very little for the ordinary fisher,other then it keeps the fish police off your back and gives elite fishing clubs facilities and so forth.Iwant the right to follow in the footsteps of my forebears in the forests and other presribed areas of this state and freely seek gold and the like by virtue of the" Right of my cultural Heritage"and the miners right should reflect that ..1st and foremost. then we can talk about where the money goes
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