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<blockquote data-quote="Marked" data-source="post: 48505" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>The original gazette describes our much loved exemption list as "lands reserved for public use"...whether justified, or ungrounded, the banning of prospecting along rivers on the list is, by my reading, allowed by the original legislation, as permissible uses of the land is entirely at the discretion of the body given the responsibility of management of the land; in most cases the DEPI. I am guessing that the growing use of floating suction dredges by amateur prospectors during the 80's and may have been a motivating reason for the list to be used for it's current purpose - it was a convenient way to use existing regulation to protect a huge number of areas from the destruction caused by over-exuberant dredging.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marked, post: 48505, member: 1246"] The original gazette describes our much loved exemption list as "lands reserved for public use"...whether justified, or ungrounded, the banning of prospecting along rivers on the list is, by my reading, allowed by the original legislation, as permissible uses of the land is entirely at the discretion of the body given the responsibility of management of the land; in most cases the DEPI. I am guessing that the growing use of floating suction dredges by amateur prospectors during the 80's and may have been a motivating reason for the list to be used for it's current purpose - it was a convenient way to use existing regulation to protect a huge number of areas from the destruction caused by over-exuberant dredging. [/QUOTE]
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