Indexes - Mineral Leases 1871-1940

The majority of these records are the printed lease documents with identifying information filled in by hand.

The below images (click for larger image) are pages 1 and 3 of a gold mining lease from the Normanby District. The example given is 2 pages from a 4 page gold mining lease. Mineral leases are similar in format.

Sources Indexed

Mines Department : Gold mining leases, 16 Aug 1871 - 26 Jul 1919
[MIN/N1 - MIN/N48]. Details given include name(s) of applicant(s) for lease, where they were from, yearly rent payable, Act under which lease was granted, where the lease was situated (name of goldfield), area of land, term (in years) and date of commencement of lease, minimum number of miners to be employed, county and parish, description and sketch map of boundaries of lease, transfers (date and to whom).

Mines Department : Mineral leases, 21 Jan 1884 - 11 Oct 1940
[MIN/O1 - MIN/O56]. Details given include name(s) of applicant(s) for lease, where they were from, mineral sought, yearly rent payable, district where the lease was situated, area of land, term (in years) and date of commencement of lease, description and sketch map of boundaries of lease, transfers (date and to whom).

Mining Warden, Cloncurry : Mineral and Water Race Leases, 16 Sep 1910 - 30 Nov 1933
[A/45843]. Details given include name of mineral field, county and parish, locality area, date of lease, names of lessees and details of transfers. Certain leases are duplicated in the series Mines Department: mineral leases [MIN/1 - MIN/68].

Mines Department : Index to Coal Mining Licence Register under the Act of 1886 [not dated]
[A/20586]. Details given are town and licensee's name.