quarrying operations to be under
licence or concession:-
(1) **** ****
**** ****
(2) No prospecting licence or quarrying concession shall be
granted otherwise than in accordance with ... provisions of
these rules."
5. Restrictions on the grant of prospecting licence or quarrying
concessions:-
(1) No prospecting licence or quarrying concession shall
Minerals (Development and Regulation)
Amendment Act, 2015 a reconnaissance permit or
prospecting licence has been granted in respect of
any land for any mineral ... holder or the
licensee shall have a right for obtaining a
prospecting licence followed by a mining lease, or a
mining lease, as the case
Persons.
Rule 5 of the Rules, 1999 provides for grant of prospecting licence for two years. Rule 5 reads as under:-
"5. Period ... which prospecting licence may be granted or renewed.- The period for which a prospecting licence may be granted shall not exceed two years."
Rule
terms and conditions of a reconnaissance permit or of a prospecting licence or, as the case may be of, a mining lease, granted under this ... shall affect any prospecting or mining operations undertaken in any area in accordance with the terms and conditions of a prospecting licence or mining lease
terms and
conditions of a reconnaissance permit or of a prospecting
licence or, as the case may be, a mining lease, granted
under this ... shall affect
any prospecting or mining operations undertaken in any
area in accordance with the terms and conditions of a
prospecting licence or mining lease
Petitioner s quarry lease application dated 12.02.1997, for quarry
iease/ Prospecting Licence, over 7-06 acres of land situated in Survey ... consequentially direct the
Respondents 1 to 3, to grant quarry lease Prospecting Licence to the Petitioner over
7-O6acres of land, situated in Survey
Rules are
reproduced as under:-
"CHAPTER III
Powers to grant Prospecting Licence,
Quarry Lease or Trade Quarry
6. Powers to grant quarry lease.- Quarry
right to claim
that he should be granted mining lease or prospecting licence or
permitted reconnaissance operation in any land belonging to the
Government
M/S Surana Minerals Pvt Ltd vs State Of Rajasthan on 16 April, 2020
Equivalent
communicated to the applicant, refuse
to grant or renew a prospecting licence over the whole or part of the area
applied for, held that ... That the rejection the application of the petitioner
therein for a prospective mining licence after issuing show cause notice and
after considering the written explanation
