MCF Mining Approvals IndexData as at 29 October 2026 · from the Queensland EP Act public register
Method and limits
What's covered
The current instrument of every coal, minerals and gemstones environmental authority on the Queensland Environmental Protection Act public register that is granted (or granted but not yet effective), and of every suspended, cancelled or surrendered one whose tenure is still current, with its status marked; every approved coal and minerals PRC plan and its published PRCP schedules; the information request and extension notices on PRC plan applications; and the applicants' published responses. Petroleum and gas authorities are not covered.
How documents are read
- Documents are fetched from the register's own storage. Every record page is checked against the reference it should belong to, because register page ids are reassigned over time.
- Conditions are split on their numbering (A1, J7, A1:, (A4-1), PESCB 5, Condition 41). Where numbering can't be followed, the instrument is shown page by page.
- Authorities adopting standard conditions by reference are linked to the document and version they name.
- Each authority's industry is the register's own (coal, minerals or gemstones). Where the register gives none, it is classified from the authority's activities and instrument, then from its tenures' commodities, and otherwise shown as unclassified; each page says which.
- A PRC plan application's received date is its lodgement date on the register's application listing, or, where the listing has none, the receipt date printed in the department's notice.
- Rehabilitation areas, information request items and applicants' reconciliation tables are read from the tables in the PDFs.
- Scanned documents are recovered by OCR, which can misread characters; those are labelled.
- Topics, matters and land use categories are keyword tags. The original wording is always shown.
What's in the MCF Mining Index
These public pages give the facts about each tenure, authority and plan. The condition text, PRC plan schedules and assessment correspondence, the nightly record of what changed, alerts and analysis are in the MCF Mining Index.
What changed last nightEvery change outlined on the map, the morning after
What's coming upExpiries, renewals and reviews, 3 to 12 months ahead
Rehabilitation costEvery site's estimate, and what each company carries
The ground through timeSatellite imagery back to 2014, on any tenureLimits
This is a snapshot, not a live feed. The PRC planning part is not published on the register, so only schedules are read. Replies given only as a revised plan or a scanned letter have no item-by-item text. Assessment durations run from lodgement and use a plan's latest effective date. Documents can be misread: always check the linked register document.
Not legal advice
This index is a research aid published by Mining Capital Funds. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Queensland Government, and it is not legal advice.