it's possibly the same in england, but property rights in australia are different to the US where you own everything from the earth's core to the infinite heavens at your property boundary
here, the crown own the land and freehold is simply holding that property from the crown. The crown also retain the rights to all minerals, and can licence their exploration on anybody else's property. It's a big issue in australia, with farmers unable to stop frackers
As an odd fact, if this bloke claimed to be looking for minerals, and if he could afford and in the highly unlikely event he was granted an exploration lease in an urban area, he could tunnel in any direction to his heart's content
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 1:39,
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think mineral rights might be stipulated separately in uk
Could be the crown, or maybe coal authority, not sure, but obviously not all these houses in Wales have any right to the coal under them.
I think they changed the "everything above" law in the US when air travel, er, 'took off'?
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I have a friend who works at the Land Registry
He told me in the UK you never really own land. It all belongs to the Queen - you just get to hold on to it for a bit.
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they are going to spend a fortune on stationery across the commonwealth when betty carks it
every qc is going to need new business cards
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 10:57,
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my experience in gold exploration leases was that you needed to geologically justify them, but they really didn't give a fuck about what explanation you gave
you could have your own crackpot theories about target selection, they didn't have to be mainstream geoscience. never saw them knocked back for geo reasons, it's your money you're wasting if you're wrong
but they wanted to see solid evidence that you actually worked on the lease if you wanted to renew your exploration lease. they didn't want you squatting on it. of course they'd never grant one in an urban area unless you spent millions showing you'd mitigated every last little interest groups' problems. ours were all out in the scrub so apart from the odd sacred site it was plain sailing
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 17 Jun 2022, 10:48,
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