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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt">Areas unavailable for mineral exploration or mining across Tasmania. Polygons delineate areas in which exploration licence and mining lease holders are not permitted to explore for or extract minerals or atomic substances. Areas include those areas defined as unavailable under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt">, or not subject to that Act,</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt"> and areas which have been administratively excluded by Mineral Resources Tasmania.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:12pt">Unavailable area polygons are a combination of land not available under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 and areas administratively excluded by Mineral Resources Tasmania as they are deemed incompatible with exploration or mining. Land not available under the MRDA includes: Game Reserves, Historic Sites, National Parks, Nature Reserves, State Reserves, Wellington Park, some Private Reserves and areas formally gazetted as exempt from the MRDA. Areas administratively excluded by Mineral Resources Tasmania include (but are not limited to): Aboriginal Land, Commonwealth Land, Ramsar Sites, Fossicking Areas, Fossil Sites, World Heritage Area, a coastal exclusion zone, a buffer along high pressure gas pipelines, and other areas, as determined by Mineral Resources Tasmania, which may or may not follow administrative or geographic boundaries.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV> |