Changes in Victoria's prospecting rules

[Hawkear]

Found this from OzGeology whose videos on gold and general geology I enjoy watching.



Was up at Nerrina prospecting just recently and am appalled to find out that the area is out of bounds and we may have been prospecting illegally.
How can these changes be crept into regulations so easily.
I have a Miners right and no one in government seems to make any attempt to advise holders of such changes let alone provide consultation with rights holders.
Government by secrecy and greenies stealthily lurking in the bowels of government
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I hope our PMAV are across this.

 

[OzzieAu]

You just beat me to it Geoff, was about to post the same video.
He certainly sounds appropriately pissed off, as we all should be.
Time to form an action group PMAV....

 

[BushChook]

Just watched this on YouTube.
Can someone confirm this?

 

[fwdoz]

Absolute disgrace this is, and yes the PMAV are aware of it.

Not surprised given the State Government have recently been sneaking secret policies in via cracks in the floor that Local Councils were not even told about. We thought it was bad in WA; well it is just the start of things to come. Wonder how many people bought properties & do not know that they cant prospect it?

Makes the blood boil seeing this happen long before we all thought it might.

 

[Jamie.milner]

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Anything Blue, Green or Red is no longer accessible.
What is this government doing???????
Clearly not consulting or acting in the interest of its constituents.
Address to access section 7 in earth resources also added.

 

[loner]

Ridiculous. Everywhere i prospect and other areas i have mapped to go is now off limits.Geovic is hard enough to navigate before it inevitably crashes but i found the s7 areas and it blows me away how much is restricted and unavailable. Big chunks of red ,green and teal no go areas. Where the hell are we supposed to go ?

 

[Jamie.milner]

This appears to be coincident with handing over crown land to indigenous groups. I’ve been going through the joint management plans and it talks about overlays but I cannot find them. I’m wondering if they are even publicly available yet.

 

[Manic_C]

We just watched the video as well, its all very confusing. Even the various government departments have no idea what is going on or what to enforce.