VPRS 5954 Mining Warden's Mining Lease Application Files, Creswick Mining Division

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This series consists of applications for mining leases received by the Mining Warden for the Creswick Mining Division within the Ballarat Mining District.

In their administrative role Mining Wardens were required to receive and register applications for various mining leases and licences in their area. The types of lease and licence applications which could have been registered include:

- Gold Mining Leases (often known simply as Mining Leases) from 1859
- Mineral Leases from 1861
- Mineral Search Licences from 1862
- Gold Mining Leases on Reserved Land from 1873
- Property Leases from 1885
- Tailings Licences from 1897
- Petroleum Prospecting Licences from 1935
- Petroleum Mineral Leases from 1935.

It is not certain that all of these types of lease or licence were registered by the Wardens.

To 1915 lease or licence applications were submitted firstly to the District Warden and then forwarded to the Mines Department in Melbourne. From 1915 applications were required to be submitted direct to the Department and from there were forwarded to the Warden.

These particular files were transferred to PROV by the University of Melbourne Archives which had originally received them as part of the E.J Semmens Collection.

Copies of leases issued by the Creswick Warden are to be found in VPRS 5954, however, it is unknown whether any relate to the applications in this series.