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Run your own mineral & extractive titles — without guessing.

Plain-English guides for the people who hold the ground. One book per state and territory — the maze of legislation, forms, fees and deadlines turned into something you can manage yourself.

One guide for every state and territory — the first three release together.

Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — Northern Territory edition
NTFirst release
Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — New South Wales edition
NSWFirst release
Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — Queensland edition
QLDFirst release
Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — Western Australia edition
WALater
Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — South Australia edition
SALater
Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — Victoria edition
VICLater
Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles — Tasmania edition
TASLater
Why this exists

The rules are public. Making sense of them isn't.

The rules for holding and keeping a mineral title are scattered across legislation, department pages, forms and fine print — and getting them wrong can cost you the ground itself. These guides gather all of it into one plain-English path per state, so you’re not ringing the department every time you need something deciphered.

Plain English, not paraphrased law

The answers already worked out, in language a first-timer can follow and a professional can trust — the terminology explained as you go, not assumed.

Flow charts throughout

The processes that matter drawn out as flow charts, so you can see exactly what happens next, what’s required of you, and by when — application to grant to renewal to expiry.

Checklists you work straight off

The obligations turned into practical checklists, so nothing slips through — forms, fees and deadlines gathered in one place instead of scattered across the fine print.

The Northern Territory edition

What's inside

“Holding, working and keeping mineral and extractive titles” — everything you need to hold, work and keep a mineral or extractive title in the Northern Territory, with the answers already worked out in plain English.

  1. Plain-English walkthroughs of every title typeExploration Licence, ELR, Mineral Lease and the full extractive ladder — application to grant to renewal to expiry
  2. Practical checklists you can work straight offSo nothing slips through the cracks
  3. The administrative processes and deadlines that keep your title aliveGathered in one place
  4. Native title, landholder relations and reportingExplained clearly, step by step
  5. A plain-English glossaryDecoding the language of tenement management
  6. A directory of the official sites and sources you’ll actually needWhere to find the forms, maps, data standards and current fees

Who it's for

  • Explorers & miners holding or chasing ground and managing their own tenure.
  • Quarry & extractive operators working the full extractive ladder.
  • Prospectors running their own titles without a full-time legal team.
  • Advisers & consultants who want one clear reference to hand a client.
The first editions · releasing shortly

Be first in line

The first guides are in final proofs now. Register your interest and you’ll be first to know the moment they’re ready — with launch pricing offered to the list before anyone else.

  • Plain-English PDF
  • Instant download at launch
  • Current at publication
  • Tax-deductible business tool

No spam — just your launch invite and the occasional note as new states land.

One state at a time

An edition for every jurisdiction

Resource law changes at the border. Each edition is written for its own state or territory, so you're never reading around rules that don't apply to you. The first three editions — Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland — release together, with the rest following. Each in its own colours, shown below.

NT
Northern Territory
First release
NSW
New South Wales
First release
QLD
Queensland
First release
WA
Western Australia
Coming soon
SA
South Australia
Coming soon
VIC
Victoria
Coming soon
TAS
Tasmania
Coming soon
About

Why these guides exist

Self-Managing Your Mineral Titles came out of a simple frustration: the rules for holding and keeping a mineral title are scattered across legislation, department pages, forms and fine print — and getting them wrong can cost you the ground itself. These guides gather all of it into one plain-English path per state and territory, with the key processes drawn out as flow charts and the obligations turned into checklists you can actually work from. Tenement management has its own language — these guides explain it as they go, rather than assuming you already speak it.

Whether you’re managing a single title or a portfolio across states, the aim is the same: to make self-managing genuinely doable.

— Alia Dante-Kinta · Find All the Ways Onward