landowner deals

[Hurg]

Hey, just wondering. If a landowner lets you prospect on their property but wants a cut if you find anything, what's considered a reasonable %?

Cheers

 

[Rhinocerus]

10-30% if you dont know em 50% if its a mate and you find heaps i reckon!

 

[Goldtarget]

Perhaps i can suggest that the % option is the least favourable. Try working in slabs, tatts tickets, or an offer of hour or two of help. After dealing with many farmers and businesses in the scrap metal trade a % option can sometimes be unviable, and I'm sure its the same with gold. the unknown question is how much will come out of the ground? Declaring the tally can sometimes be misleading for e either party. On a gold claim this may need proper negotiation, but in an everyday id try very hard to keep on the right side of the landowner, chances are they have been asked before (and there's always someone trying to sneak on). One landowner i know has dumped thousands of pellets of lead in his holes because prospectors just kept detecting them, so anyone friendly enough to come see him gets pointed in a different direction and will swap access for a quick chat. Perhaps asking the landholder what they considered fair rather than trying to make an offer might be the quickest way home, often its not what we ask but how we so that makes the difference.

 

[G0lddigg@]

have to agree with GT, I have a few mates who spend a lot of time going around getting access to private property so i amagine the same people get haslted quite a bit and i'm sure they would have heard the old "sorry i only got a .4g specimen" before.

a slab of your favourite brew would twist most blokes arms i wopuld think. around here the going rate is 20% of the haul but i ave another mate who offers any relics found and that works well for him.