Australia
Miner's Right Victoria: Cost, How to Get One and the Rules
A Victorian Miner's Right costs $29.40 for 10 years, rising to $41.40 on 1 January 2027. How to buy one, what it lets you do, and the rules attached.
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13 articles tagged “Permissions”.
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Metal Detecting in the Northern Territory: Permit and Land Access
The NT has required a fossicking permit since June 2026. How the free permit, fossicking notices, pastoral land, Aboriginal land and gold limits work.
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Metal Detecting in South Australia: No Permit, Always Permission
South Australia needs no fossicking permit, but every block needs someone's consent. How Crown land, parks, Jupiter Creek and Mount Crawford work.
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Metal Detecting in Tasmania: Prospecting Licence and Reserves
In Tasmania a detector needs a prospecting licence, is banned from fossicking areas and cannot be carried onto reserved land. How the rules fit together.
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Metal Detecting in NSW: Fossicking Rules, Forests and Goldfields
NSW needs no fossicking licence, but it has permits, take limits and a strict relics law. Where you can detect in New South Wales and where you cannot.
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Metal Detecting in Queensland: Fossicking Licence, Areas and Gold
Queensland needs a fossicking licence everywhere and written permission off designated land. How the licence, fossicking areas and GPAs work in practice.
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Metal Detecting in Western Australia: Miner's Right and Tenements
In WA a metal detector counts as prospecting. What a Miner's Right allows, how tenements, pastoral leases and 40E permits work, and where the gold is.
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Metal Detecting in Victoria: Miner's Right, Parks and Goldfields
Victoria has Australia's richest detecting ground and a dense rulebook. What a Miner's Right covers, where it stops, and how to read the goldfields.
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Metal Detecting in Australia: Permits, Parks, and State Rules
Detecting rules in Australia are set state by state. Here is how Miner's Rights, fossicking licences, heritage law, and park bans fit together.
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Metal Detecting in the UK: Law, Treasure, and the Code
Permission, the Treasure Act, PAS recording, and why Scotland and Northern Ireland are different. A practical orientation for detecting legally in the UK.
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Private by Default: Be Careful Sharing Detecting Locations
Why detectorists should keep their sites private — landowner trust, site preservation, theft risk — and how local-first logging protects your spots.
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How to Ask a Landowner for Metal Detecting Permission
A respectful, proven approach to getting metal detecting permission — what to say, what to offer, how to handle no, and what to put in writing.
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Where Can You Metal Detect Legally? A Practical Checklist
Metal detecting laws vary by country, council, and landowner. Use this check-before-you-dig framework to detect legally and keep your access for good.