Tenement and Tenure Services
Services provided by TAS in performing tenement management for clients include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Monitoring and surveillance of ground available for acquisition
- Marking out, preparation and lodgement of applications for all types of mining and exploration tenements in Australia, including:
- Application forms
- Requisite maps
- Pro forma exploration programmes
- Advertising
- Notification of landowners, landholders, councils and aboriginal bodies
- Coordination of aboriginal requirements through to grant of the tenement
- Identification of background land tenure, including tenements, land descriptions, property owners and archival research, and
- Comprehensive notifications to client of matters arising and completed during the month, or a shorter agreed period, including identification of issues or problems requiring resolution or decision
Compilation and provision of accurate:
- Tenement lists
- Bond lists, and
- Historical expenditure and exemption reports for individual tenements or whole projects for clients on a regular basis or as required for informed management decision making
Preparation and timely lodgement of:
- The Land Access Code provisions – (QLD), including Notice of Entry requirements and Notice of Intention to Negotiate
- Routine statutory returns, renewals and relinquishment documents
- Payment of rent
- Annual technical and/or environmental reporting
- Local government rates, and
- Applications for Variation/Exemption from expenditure or compulsory partial surrender provisions, with minimal client disruption
Compilation and management of routine and complex requirements:
- Rent
- Form 5/Expenditure Reports
- Applications for Exemption
- Annual technical and/or environmental reporting
- Local government rates
- Application for relief from compulsory partial surrender
- Facilitating compilation and management of Applications for Exemption from Expenditure submission with minimal client disruption.
- Compilation and lodgement of routine and statutory returns, renewals and relinquishment documents
- Research and preparation of documentation to assist in defence of Warden’s Court plaints
- Appearance at Warden’s Court Mentions and administrative hearings
- JV and farm-in/farm-out agreement monitoring and management
- Preparation and lodgement of caveat, transfers, bonds, securities and all other dealings as required
- Tenement due diligence, title verification and analysis
- VALMIN tenement reports for prospectuses, capital raising and takeovers
- Legislation and policy advice
- Forensic research, and
- Landowner negotiation
TAS maintains a network of other professional service providers such as environmental scientists, engineers, surveyors in Western Australia, surveyors in Queensland and legal firms.