Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Before making an application for the grant of a mining claim, the intending applicant or some person authorised on the intending applicant's behalf shall mark out the land by inserting firmly in the ground at each and every corner of the land applied for a round post which shall be not less than 10cm in diameter or a square post each side of which shall be not less than 10cm in width standing at least 1m above the surface and sunk not less that 50cm in the ground.
(2) The part of each post above the surface shall be painted white.
(3) Where posts are of timber construction they shall be barked and dried of sap before use.
(4) One of the posts shall be selected to be the datum post for the purpose of the commencement of the description and from which a cadastral surveyor shall commence any survey of the land.
(5) There shall be engraved or in some way durably marked on each post the applicant's initials and surname (or of 1 applicant should there be more than 1) and the numerals indicating the date on which the subject land was marked in accordance with this section and the engraving or marking shall be so maintained until action is taken in accordance with section 64B(1)(a) and (b).
(6) Where the applicant is a company the initials of that company (or of any 1 company should there be more than 1) shall be engraved and marked as prescribed herein on the posts.
(7) If a post can not be inserted in the manner prescribed there shall be erected a cairn of stones at least 50cm high in the place where the post should have been inserted.
(8) If cairns of stones are erected there shall be engraved or in some way durably marked thereon the particulars which would have been required had a post been inserted.
(9) Where it is not practicable to insert a post or erect a cairn of stones in the manner prescribed at every corner of the land applied for, there may be inserted a datum post only and compass bearings shall be taken and distances measured, as required by section 62.
(10) Where it is impossible to insert a datum post or erect a cairn of stones in the manner prescribed by subsection (1) the land shall be marked by measuring a distance on a given bearing from a reference post to a point which shall be the nominal position of the starting point and from which any survey of the land shall commence and the reference post shall in all respects comply with the provisions of this Act relating to a datum post, except the provisions relating to position.