2016-07-12 - Item 13 - Att 1 - Extractive Resources and Mineral Planning Study 2016

(4) However, extracting does not include—
        (a) a process in a smelter, refinery or anywhere else by which mineral is changed to
        another substance; or
        (b) testing or assaying small quantities of mineral in teaching institutions or laboratories,
        other than laboratories situated in the area of a mining lease; or
        (c) an activity, prescribed under a regulation, that is not directly associated with winning
        mineral from a place where it occurs.
(5) For subsection (1), disposing includes, for example, the disposal of tailings and waste rock.
(6) A regulation under subsection (4)(c) may prescribe an activity by reference to the quantities of
minerals extracted or to any other specified circumstances.




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