Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1994 - SECT 22

             (1)  A mineral is a naturally occurring substance or a naturally occurring mixture of substances.

Note:          This Act does not apply to petroleum (see section 35).

             (2)  Without limiting subsection (1), a mineral may be in the form of sand, gravel, clay, limestone, rock, evaporites, shale, oil-shale or coal.