This series consists of "Application of Mining Lease" forms accompanied by statutory declarations confirming the applicant has complied with regulations 86, 87 and 88 of the Northern Territory Mining Act 1903. Some applications also include in extract from the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette that say what mining leases have been approved by the Minister of the Interior.
The information on the "Application for Mining Lease" forms includes:
. The names of applicants and style under which it is intended that the business shall be carried on
. Full address and occupation of each applicant
. Extent of Ground applied for
. Name of each person who (if any) is occupying the land applied for and nature of improvements (if any) on the land applied for
. The number of Miner's Right held by each applicant
. Precise locality and term for which lease is required
. Whether the boundaries of the land applied for will include any river, creek, deposit, or permanent water, spring, or artificial reservoir, public road, or reserve
. General remarks and rough sketch
On the Statutory Declaration there is a Lease Application number prefixed by "NO" or "AS" or "BK". The significance of the prefix is not at present known. (See inventory for details of the application numbers and the names of the applicants).
On the top right hand corners of some statutory declarations a file reference has been written. The year and single number file number refers to correspondence files in CRS A1.
The extracts from the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette has the following information on them:
. Application Number
. Description
. Area of Land in Acres
. Applicant
. Locality of Lands applied for
. Date of approval
The applications were lodged with the Warden of the Field. Who forwarded them to the Chief Warden in Darwin then forwarded them to the Minister for Interior for approval.
A cardboard sheet that probably was the spine of a folder that housed the applications was found with the applications. The following information is on the cardboard sheet:
The Northern Territory of Australia
Mining Lease Applications
from AS22 onwards
Also BK10 inwards
Main file 39/1/12312.
The file number reference on the piece of cardboard refers to a file in CRS A659.
The series first came to Australian Archives in 1958 as CP 597/4. For a brief period it was controlled by AS13/11. It was converted to the CRS system in 1987.