Services
COMPLIANCE AND REPORTING
- Expenditure reporting, including any applications for waiver or exemption and submissions in opposition to forfeiture
- Assistance with the lodgment of technical reports
- Payment and monitoring of annual rents and local government rates
- Applications for combined reporting status
- Applications for extension/renewal of titles
- Voluntary and compulsory area reductions and/or waiver and variation applications
- Provision of regular land holding schedules and ‘action lists’ to assist clients with budget and workflow planning
- Advice and assistance on compliance with mining title conditions (including assistance with the removal of those conditions if possible)
PROJECT ACQUISITION AND DIVESTMENT
- Applications for new titles
- Due diligence review of prospective projects
- Transfer of existing titles (following acquisition by purchase, farm in, joint venture or other arrangement)
- Lodgement or removal of caveats
- Project packaging – including independent title reports
- Preparation of title summary for Valmin reports
INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING AND COMPLIANCE WITH LISTING RULES
- Assistance with tenure reports for the preparation of a prospectus
- Provision of quarterly schedule to assist with listing rules compliance
POLICY ADVICE
- Provision of information on current policies and upcoming changes
- Ensuring your voice is heard when changes to policy or legislation are proposed
ADVICE ON LAND STRATEGY
- Ongoing review of land holding and advice on tenure rationalisation to decrease cost and improve administrative efficiency
- One off, independent review of land holding and compliance (presented in report form), for independent implementation by client
- Strategic advice and applications for retention status and mining lease conversions
LAND MONITORING
- Monitor selected land for new application opportunities using MMTS’s advanced and competitive land monitoring systems. MMTS uses a number of bespoke systems to ensure that its clients have the best chance of success when new ground becomes available.
NATIVE TITLE AND ABORIGINAL HERITAGE
- Providing practical advice on Native Title and cultural heritage solutions
- Management and administration of Native Title agreements
AGREEMENT MANAGEMENT / CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION
- Tracking and administration of agreement milestones/deadlines
LAND ACCESS APPROVALS AND GOVERNMENT LIAISON
- Private property inclusions:
- Title research, including in relation to ‘minerals to owner’
- Assistance with negotiations
- Registration of private land holder consents on title
- Managing approvals with other government agencies
- Assistance with contact/negotiation with various government bodies for mining land related approvals
ENVIROMENTAL MANAGEMENT
- Management of disturbance reporting for Mining Rehabilitation Fund (MRF) purposes
- Assistance with environmental approvals
ROYALTY & PRODUCTON REPORTS
- Lodgement of royalty and production reports and advice in relation to compliance
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
- Tracking and research of historic royalties
- Review of open file geological reports
SHADOW COMPLIANCE MONITORING
- Maintenance of database and reminder service as back up to existing in-house team
SHORT TERM ASSISTANCE DURING TRANSITION PERIODS
- Short term assistance following corporate/staffing change or large acquisition, including staff secondment if required
LEGAL SERVICES REFERRAL
- MMTS can assist with the referral of matters to specialist law firms, both with transactional work, heritage and Native Title advice and disputes under the Mining Act
- MMTS’s sister company, Mining Access Legal, provides legal services to the resources sector. More information about Mining Access Legal is available at miningaccesslegal.net.au. MMTS also works closely with a number of other reputable law firms