Reporting for coal and mineral activities
What's new
A new practice direction and data submission templates are available below. Read more about new reporting requirements and implementation timelines.
If you hold an exploration permit for coal or minerals, a mineral development licence or a mining lease, you must provide information about your activities and mineral discoveries.
This page explains how to meet your activity notification and reporting obligations under Queensland resources legislation.
Note: Following regulation amendments, 'annual reports' are now known as 'activity reports'.
You must lodge an activity report every year if you hold any of the following coal or mineral resource authorities:
- exploration permit for coal or minerals
- mineral development licence
- mining lease for coal or oil shale.
For exploration permits and mineral development licences, you must also lodge a separate expenditure statement.
As part of your activity report, you must provide a full technical summary of the authorised activities, including maps and a digital copy of all data assay results and any geophysical, geochemical, drilling or remote sensing data.
How to lodge your notices and reports
The tables below show what activity reports you need to submit and how to do it. If you need more help:
- refer to the legislation (references in the tables below)
- read the Practice direction – minerals and coal reporting (PDF, 1.2MB) and use the submission templates
- read about lodging reports into the GSQ Lodgement Portal
- read the Practice direction 1 – submission of geophysical survey data (PDF, 98KB).
Exploration permit for coal or minerals
| Report/notice and legislation | When to lodge | How to lodge |
|---|---|---|
|
Activity report (MRA1 s. 141(1)(e) MRR2 s. 13) | Within 1 month after each anniversary of the day the exploration permit takes effect | Follow 'Practice direction – minerals and coal reporting' and use the data submission templates above. Upload all files to the GSQ Lodgement Portal |
| Notification of geophysical survey (PDF, 119KB) (MRA s. 416B) | Within 10 business days of completing survey | Follow 'Practice direction 1 – submission of geophysical survey data', above, and email to Geo.Physics@resources.qld.gov.au |
|
Geophysical survey data (MRA s. 416B) | Submit data from any completed survey at the same time as your activity report | Follow 'Practice direction 1 – submission of geophysical survey data', above, and upload data to the GSQ Lodgement Portal |
|
Expenditure statement for activity report (MRR s. 14) | As a separate document at the same time as the activity report | Upload completed expenditure statement using available template to MyMinesOnline |
1MRA: Mineral Resources Act 1989
2MRR: Mineral Resources Regulation 2013
Mineral development licence
| Report/notice and legislation | When to lodge | How to lodge |
|---|---|---|
|
Activity report (MRA1 s. 194(1)(e) MRR2 s. 13) | Within 1 month after each anniversary of the day the mineral development licence takes effect | Follow 'Practice direction – minerals and coal reporting' and use the data submission templates, above. Upload all files to the GSQ Lodgement Portal |
| Notification of geophysical survey (PDF, 119KB) (MRA s. 416B) | Within 10 business days of completing survey | Follow 'Practice direction 1 – submission of geophysical survey data' above, and email to Geo.Physics@resources.qld.gov.au |
|
Geophysical survey data (MRA s. 416B) | As a separate document at the same time as the activity report | Follow 'Practice direction 1 – submission of geophysical survey data' above, and upload data to the GSQ Lodgement Portal |
|
Expenditure statement for activity report (MRR s. 14) | As a separate document at the same time as the activity report | Upload completed expenditure statement using available template to MyMinesOnline |
1MRA: Mineral Resources Act 1989
2MRR: Mineral Resources Regulation 2013
Mining lease for coal or oil shale
Note: There is no statutory requirement for an activity report for mining leases for minerals.
| Report/notice and legislative reference | When to lodge | How to lodge |
|---|---|---|
|
Activity report (MRA1 s. 318CV) | Within 2 months after each anniversary of the day the lease takes effect | Follow 'Practice direction – minerals and coal reporting' and use the data submission templates, above. Upload all files to the GSQ Lodgement Portal |
1MRA: Mineral Resources Act 1989
Additional reporting requirements
As part of your reporting requirements, you may need to submit production and sales statistics. You may also need to pay mining and petroleum royalties.
- Last reviewed: 2 Jun 2022
- Last updated: 19 May 2023