Mining Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1998 (WA)

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items commencing with the mineral categories set out in the following Table.

MINERALS AND ENERGY

MN301'''

MINING ACT 1978

MINING AMENDMENT REGULATIONS (No. 2) 1998

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.
Citation

1.These regulations may be cited as the Mining Amendment Regulations (No. 2) 1998.

Principal regulations

2.In these regulations the Mining Regulations 1981* are referred to as the principal

regulations.

* Reprinted as at 18 March 1996.

For amendments to 3 February 1998 see 1996 Index to Legislation of Western

Australia, Table 4, pp. 193-4 and Gazette 4 April and 3 October 19971

Regulation 86 amended

3.(1) The Table to regulation 86 of the principal regulations is amended by deleting the

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Table

Abrasives	Limestone (construction)
Alunite
Magnesite
Amblygonite
Monazite
Bentonite
Oil Shale
Calcite
Petalite
Corundum
Pyrophyllite
Emery
Quartz Crystal
Gadolinite
Shale
Glauconite
Sillimanite
Jarosite
Spodumene
Lepidolite
Xenotime.
Limestone (metallurgical)

(2) The Table to regulation 86 of the principal regulations is amended by inserting in the

appropriate alphabetical order the mineral categories set out in the following Table, together

with the associated entries in the columns noted next to those entries.

Table

Construction Limestone	30 cents (Column 1)
Lithium Minerals	5% (Column 2)
Metallurgical	50 cents (Column 1)
limestone inc. limesands and shellsands
Rare Earth Minerals	5% (Column 2).

(3)	The Table to regulation 86 of the principal regulations is amended -
(a)	in column 3 of the item commencing "Ilmenite" by deleting "with a minimum of $1.50 per tonne";
(b)	in the item commencing "Leucoxene" -

(i)by inserting in column 2 the following -

5% ";and

(ii) by deleting the entry in column 3;

(c)	in the item commencing "Rutile" -
(i) by inserting in column 2 the following -

5% ";and

(ii) by deleting the entry in column 3;

(d) in the item commencing "Semi-precious stones" by inserting after "stones"
the following -

(including specimen stones) ";and

(e)	in the item commencing "Zircon" -
(i) by inserting in column 2 the following -

5% ";and

(ii) by deleting the entry in column 3.

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.