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Part 9. Miners Welcome 1993-1995 The New Dissenters The Renewal of Victorian Goldfields Agitation in the 20th Century Part Nine Miners Welcome 1993-1995 Miners Welcome explores the repetitious statements that mining was welcome and encouraged in Victoria. A statement made often enough becomes truth for most people. Masked by the propaganda was the loss of the State batteries and any proposed substitutes. There were still more amendments to try and silence the complainers and the truth about con-artists repeatedly made its way into the newspapers. Jim Plowman, Minister for Energy and Minerals in April 1994, said: ‘I shall leave you with a quote from R.F. White written in 1873 in “The Mining Town” which I never want to hear applied to Victoria.’ "Pure gold was hidden in the quartz, they said 'twas proved by dreams and signs, and rods divining, by chemic tests, and spirits of the dead, in fact by everything - except mining". If R.F. White had been alive in the mid 1990s, would he have said that the Mineral Resources Development Act proved his comment? Stephen Barnham Copyright Stephen Barnham 2011 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work, and owner of this intellectual property. DEDICATION To the previously unrecognised people who worked so hard to try and protect Victoria’s gold prospecting and small-scale gold mining heritage and those who realise the importance of understanding your own history. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS John’s wife Nola Winter who had the foresight not to throw out numerous documents when John Winter died. Anne Doran who carefully saved mining related Central Victorian newspaper articles and typed many letters for Frank Kopacka. To John Tully who encouraged me keep going while I worried continuously. To Peter Bridge of Hesparian Press whose insistence on the importance of historical integrity. Numerous people named in the work regardless of their views. GENERAL COMMENTS This series has been written substantially using material that is unique and not to be found in public records. Although not written by an academic or with any training, the author lived through these changes and events. It was written from the perspective of a gold prospector and small-scale gold miner with a sense of lost heritage, lost rights and consequently lost opportunities. In consequence the author acknowledges there will be bias. In literally spending years sorting and writing this material as a history and a guide to avoiding past mistakes, the author discovered that no interest group was happy. FOOTNOTE CODES Some footnotes have a letter code. These refer to Dunolly Museum archive documents, interviews, newspaper clippings. COPYRIGHT All rights reserved. Apart from fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as provided under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced, stored or transmitted by any means without the prior written permission of the author or publisher. DISCLAIMER This publication may be of assistance to the reader/user, however, the author and publisher do not guarantee, state, imply or present that the document is a complete publication covering all aspects of the subject matter, is without flaw of any kind or is solely appropriate for the particular usage purpose, and disclaim all liability for any error, loss or other consequence which may arise from relying on any information in this publication. WARNING This contains contentious subjects, people and events including people known to abuse litigation as a means of control. The contents are from archives, often in handwriting or signed letters. As well as being able to prove the material presented, there is a lot of “interesting” documentation that was never used. Think carefully before taking the lid off Pandora’s Box. Come what may, the author will not “revise” inconvenient history. Table of Contents CHAPTER 32. 1994.......................................................................................................................1 Mine Manager Certificate, January 1994..........................................................................................................1 Uncertified Mine Managers, May 1994............................................................................................................1 Mine Managers Certificate, June 1994.............................................................................................................2 Roll Over Protection and Falling Objects Protection, January 1994.................................................................2 National Crime Authority And Money Laundering Using Gold February 1994...............................................3 Resource Development Speech given by the Minister for Energy and Minerals, April 1994...........................3 Decommissioning State Batteries, May 1994.................................................................................................10 Mobile Ore Crushing and Testing Plant..........................................................................................................11 Machinery Roll Over Protection Standards, May 1994..................................................................................11 ROPS Debate, Eureka Echo June 1994...........................................................................................................12 Re Mandatory Six - Monthly Mine Reports....................................................................................................12 Proposed Amendment to the Mineral Resources (titles) Regulations 1991, August 1994..............................13 Inaugural Mining Week in Victoria, October 17-23 1994..............................................................................14 Presidents Report to AGM, 1994....................................................................................................................14 Departmental Tyranny. Observations by Fred Ward on “Precautionary Principals” 1994..............................15 Obituary for Keith (Ned) Sheehan, June 1994................................................................................................16 Miner’s Right, Mining Questions and DEM Response, September 1994.......................................................16 New Mining Laws and Attitudes, October 1994.............................................................................................18 Schools, Teachers, Mining And The VCM, 1994...........................................................................................18 CHAPTER 33. 1995.....................................................................................................................20 Land Access, General Comments 1995..........................................................................................................20 Department Name Change 1995.....................................................................................................................20 Mobile Crushing Plant, March 1995...............................................................................................................21 The Public Still Fed Bulldust About Mining Revival, March 1995................................................................21 Stream Exemptions From Prospecting Under a Miner's Right, March 1995...................................................23 PMAV Seeks Further Amendments To MRDA, March 1995.........................................................................24 Publicity for Small-Scale Miners, June 1995..................................................................................................25 PMAV President’s Report, July 1995.............................................................................................................25 Competent Person, Section 47A MRDA, July 1995.......................................................................................26 International Treaties, July 1995.....................................................................................................................26 International Treaties - Abuse of the System?................................................................................................27 PMAV Presidents Report to AGM, October 1995..........................................................................................27 Preliminary Submissions to Regional Forest Agreement and Box-Ironbark, October 1995...........................29 Another Department Name Change and Staff Changes, 1995........................................................................30 Commentary on Bureaucratic Time wasting, October 1995...........................................................................30 Maryborough Advertiser Articles, 1995.........................................................................................................31 Eileen Courtney: Bias in favour of mining.....................................................................................................48 APPENDIX ONE...........................................................................................................................49 Victorian Stream Exclusion List.....................................................................................................................49 1 Chapter 32. 1994 Synopsis: Mine management certification reviewed for small-scale mines with less than three people. National Crime Authority and money laundering. Earth moving machinery and roll over protection. Decommissioning of State batteries. Exploration tenements thrive
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