Native Title (Approved Opal or Gem Mining Area — Lightning Ridge (Area 1), New South Wales) Determination 20001

I, DARYL ROBERT WILLIAMS, Attorney-General, acting under subsection 26C (2) of the Native Title Act 1993, determine that the area of land and waters in New South Wales specified in Schedule 1, and referred to as Area 1, is an approved opal or gem mining area for the purposes of section 26C of the Act.

Dated 16 February 2000.

DARYL WILLIAMS

Attorney-General

Schedule 1 Area 1

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Note 1   In the following description AMG means Australian Map Grid.

Note 2   The boundary of the area specified in this Schedule is depicted by the thick black line, enclosing the area identified as Area 1, on the attached copy of a map of the Lightning Ridge Opal & Gem Mining Area. (Area 2 is the subject of the Native Title (Approved Opal or Gem Mining Area — Lightning Ridge (Area 2), New South Wales) Determination 1999.) The map is maintained by the Department of Mineral Resources, Titles Branch, located in Mineral & Energy House, Level 4, 29-57 Christie Street, St. Leonards, NSW. It may be viewed at that office during business hours.

Area 1, which is approximately 1720 square kilometres, is contained within the boundary that begins at the New South Wales and Queensland border at AMG point 602000, 6791500 and continues progressively:

• generally southerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to the Castlereagh Highway at AMG point 592500, 6738000
• generally north-westerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 580000, 6756000
• generally southerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 576000, 6729000
• generally north-westerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 567000, 6740000
• generally southerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 570500, 6710000
• generally north, south and south-westerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 544500, 6677500
• generally west and northerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 537600, 6690200
• generally northerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to the Narran Lake Road at AMG point 536300, 6714400 and excluding the Narran Archaeological and Mythological Site as recorded in the Register of the National Estate Database (File No. 1/03/223/0008, Registered 30/06/1992)

• generally easterly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 561500, 6717500
• generally northerly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to AMG point 556000, 6740000
• generally north-easterly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to the Castlereagh Highway at AMG point 587500, 6778500
• generally north-westerly along the Castlereagh Highway to AMG point 584000, 6786600
• generally north-easterly along the Cretaceous Ridge Line to the New South Wales and Queensland border at AMG point 592000, 6791600
• generally easterly along the New South Wales and Queensland border to the point of commencement.

1. This Determination commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s 48 and Native Title Act 1993, s 214.