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Philip & Sandra Box
If you want to expand your opportunities for prospecting in Western Australia then you should learn how to submit a 40e Permit application. It opens up huge tracts of land that are covered by exploration licenses and otherwise closed to prospecting. The 40e permit can cover up to ten adjoining graticules, roughly ten square miles or 2600Ha. That's a lot of walking and swinging to do in the couple of months allowed.
One of the conditions of the 40e permit is that you must report your gold finds, and the location that you found it, to the exploration company holding the lease. I know some people take this as a thankless task because you're unlikely to ever hear any more about it. It does however assist the company by indicating where the gold is (or was) located.
After our last four weeks in the north Mrs M did the usual report stating what gold was found and included coordinates of the finds. A week later we were surprised to get a response from the mining company asking for photos of the nuggets so that they could see the type or shape of the gold found. Of course we immediately responded because Mrs M photographs just about everything dead or alive.
The outcome was an offer to prospect of a different lease covering more than four times the area covered by a 40e and it's close to home as well. The map supplied even indicated where they had already found alluvial gold so you never know when you might get lucky.
Make sure you get those gold reports in if you want to be in the draw to win
One of the conditions of the 40e permit is that you must report your gold finds, and the location that you found it, to the exploration company holding the lease. I know some people take this as a thankless task because you're unlikely to ever hear any more about it. It does however assist the company by indicating where the gold is (or was) located.
After our last four weeks in the north Mrs M did the usual report stating what gold was found and included coordinates of the finds. A week later we were surprised to get a response from the mining company asking for photos of the nuggets so that they could see the type or shape of the gold found. Of course we immediately responded because Mrs M photographs just about everything dead or alive.
The outcome was an offer to prospect of a different lease covering more than four times the area covered by a 40e and it's close to home as well. The map supplied even indicated where they had already found alluvial gold so you never know when you might get lucky.
Make sure you get those gold reports in if you want to be in the draw to win
