Miner's Rights & Leases

Miner's rights can provide the following information: number of miner's right, name, date, fee, date of issue and expiry, number and name of lease. Miner's right records can relate to various towns or districts as follows (see AN 350/Cue etc., for further records relating to various goldfields):

Collie

• AU WA S813 cons4453 1: Mines Department. Registers of Coal Mining Leases 1896-1910 (Collie)
  shows dates of application, grant and relinquishment, description of lease including area, lease number, lessee, transfers, encumbrances and fees paid.

Cue

• ACC 787/140: Mines Department. List of Miner's Rights Cue 1896-1897
• ACC 787/141: Mines Department. List of Miner's Rights Cue 1904-1939
• AU WA S1524 cons51721: Mining Registrar, Cue. Quarterly returns of leaseholders in the Cue district 1897-1899
  Provides number and name of lease, manage or attorney, date.
• AU WA S1530 cons5178/1: Mining Registrar, Cue. Applications for licences 1937-1943
  Details include date, number, applicant’s name and details, whether granted or not.
• AU WA S1712 cons5233 1: Mining Registrar, Cue. Register of Prospecting Areas 1902-1910
  Shows number, date, applicant’s name, miner’s right number and extent of area registered.
• AU WA S1711 cons5234 1: Mining Registrar, Cue. Register of Residence Areas 1892-1897
  Shows number, name of applicant, date and extent of area leased.

Day Dawn

• ACC 787/142: Mines Department. List of Miner's Rights Day Dawn 1896-1897

Geraldton

• ACC 1277/13: Geraldton Courthouse. Register of Miner's Rights 1888-1897

Laverton

• ACC 1290/17-19: Laverton Courthouse. Registers of Miner's Rights 1896-1921

Leonora

• ACC 1456/31: Leonora Courthouse. Register of Miner's Rights 1922-1925

Marble Bar

• AU WA S266 CONS3714/1-25: Mining Warden and Mining Registrar Marble Bar. Applications for Miner’s Rights, Mineral Leases etc., 1890-1966
• AU WA S636 cons 4136 1: Mining Registrar, Marble Bar. Register of Mining Leases 1891-1898
  Provides name of lease, number of shares, locality, surveyed area, date, name of lessees, number of shares held, date of transfer of shares and who to, rent amount, exemptions and comments. The majority of leases are in the localities of Marble Bar, Bamboo Creek and Mallina.

Onslow

• ACC 1256/6: Onslow Police Station. Miner's Rights granted 1895-1935

Phillips River

• ACC 792/142: Phillips River Mining Registrar. Register of Miner's Rights 1899-1923

Yalgoo

• AU WA S394 cons3820 1: Mining Registrar, Cue. Certificates of Miners’ Rights issued at Yalgoo 1966-1971
  The butt of the certificate shows to whom issued, place and date.

York

• AU WA S477 cons3824 1: Clerk of Courts York. Alphabetical list of Miner's Rights 1921-1941

General

• ACC 1371/22-23: Mines Department. Nominal Indexes of registered lessees and applicants to 1905
  Arranged alphabetically by name of lessee with number of lease, goldfield and date cancelled.
• AU WA S266 cons3714 1-25: Applications for Miner's Rights 1890-1966
  Various mining wardens.
• AU WA S475 cons3997 1: Mines Department. Register of Transfer of Claims 1904-1909
  Shows number and date of transfer, number and description of holding, name, number of miner’s right and date of miner’s right for transferor and transferee, fee, date of registration and issue of certificate.
• AU WA S811 cons4451 1-132: Mines Department. Registers of Gold Mining Leases 1888-1960
  Shows dates of application, grant and relinquishment, description of lease including area, lease number, lessee, transfers and all encumbrances and fees paid.
• AU WA S812 cons4452 1-3: Mines Department. Registers of Mineral Leases 1892-1906 (Greenbushes, Yandanooka, Pilbara and Phillips River)
  Shows dates of application, grant and relinquishment, description of lease including area, lease number, lessee, transfers and all encumbrances and fees paid.