Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

MINING REGULATIONS 1981 - REG 89C

89C .         Identified mineral resource (Act s. 8(1))

        (1)         In this regulation —

        JORC Code means the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves published by the Joint Ore Reserves Committee of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, the Australian Institute of Geoscientists and the Minerals Council of Australia in December 2004.

        (2)         For the purposes of the definition of identified mineral resource in section 8(1), a deposit of minerals has to be identified as coming within one of the following classifications provided for in clauses 20, 21 and 22 of the JORC Code —

            (a)         Inferred Mineral Resource;

            (b)         Indicated Mineral Resource;

            (c)         Measured Mineral Resource.

        [Regulation 89C inserted in Gazette 3 Feb 2006 p. 595.]