There are 3 ways of establishing yourself, !, you can find a suitable area and peg (claim) yourself a block at 900 square metres, its a little under 1/4 acre, (total once only outlay is around $1250 including bond of $1000) and it is for a 5 year lease, and it usually takes about 4 mths from the time you peg it to the time you can move on it, , you then pay a yearly sum for rental of $35 to the Mines dept, and Rates to the Emerald shire of around $400 a year, you can free camp in the bush while waiting, but you will need an address for the Mines Dept to send you bills, this is renewable for as long as you want ,if you surrender it the $1000 bond is returned to you 2, you can find a bare claim and buy it from the owners, (usually at an enflated value) but you can move on it striaght away, and start building , rental and rates are the same as no 1, I recently sold one for $3500,and bought another at $5000, ( more prospects for sapphire,) 3, Buy an already established place, (house, shack, tin shed, van,) for you to live in, plus machinary plant to mine ,and settle in immediatly, rental and rates same again as no 1, these can go for as high as $100,000 dollars what you do with it after you have the title is entirely up to you, some stay all the year round , ( there is a lot of here,) some do the same as we do and go picking cherries and head for the cooler climates in summer, or cover the rest of the country using this place as a base The place is populated by nomads, V/veterans, and mostly senior cits and your only expences once established is food fuel and your yearly rates,, hope all this helps a little, Mike My neighbour has just dug up a yellow sapphire , got it cut and polished and sold it for $8500, better than lotto, and you keep fit with the digging pic is a view of the diggings from a mound of tailings, you can also google it on the earth program
Thanks for the info Mike and Judy,
Interesting information. Do any of the claim lessees ever sub let the claim when they are not there for a period of time by some arrangement?
kenmarg said
07:15 PM Aug 15, 2009
hi mike and judy. what a great way to live econonically, truly i am jealous. i was just thinking today,after mowing my lawns i was using the leaf blower to clean up. why dont i just get the broom and sweep up?? these so called modern cons are killing us. and to think you are only 40 kilometres from emerald, one of the best towns in queensland.
Wombat 280 said
08:42 PM Aug 16, 2009
kenmarg wrote:
hi mike and judy. what a great way to live econonically, truly i am jealous. i was just thinking today,after mowing my lawns i was using the leaf blower to clean up. why dont i just get the broom and sweep up?? these so called modern cons are killing us. and to think you are only 40 kilometres from emerald, one of the best towns in queensland.
Couldn't agree more . Just hit Hervey Bay on the way to Longreach and will spend the night at Sapphire before heading on Plan on spending 4 days at Kinka Beach near Yeppoon before striking out to Sapphire. As for Mod Cons just watch a bloke on the next site spend the last of the light hours setting up his sat dish , asked how long he was staying and he's on the road with us in the morning . You have to wonder at times . Perfect condition so far and the raod is also perfect Going South we count about 250 van each day while we travel so there's a lot of us there. Staying at the TT park here in HB recommend it small but comforty
dave06 said
09:20 PM Aug 16, 2009
sounds pretty good to me
Wombat 280 said
01:20 PM Aug 20, 2009
Made it to Yeypoon great little spot for a break did the Mt Morgan gold mine tour now thats one not to miss if your into our early history of gold mining .
Off to sapphire in the morning for an O/N then Longreach for a week
There are a lot of vans on the road arounf 200 250 in 6 hours on the road each day
There are 3 ways of establishing yourself,
!, you can find a suitable area and peg (claim) yourself a block at 900 square metres, its a little under 1/4 acre, (total once only outlay is around $1250 including bond of $1000) and it is for a 5 year lease, and it usually takes about 4 mths from the time you peg it to the time you can move on it, , you then pay a yearly sum for rental of $35 to the Mines dept, and Rates to the Emerald shire of around $400 a year, you can free camp in the bush while waiting, but you will need an address for the Mines Dept to send you bills, this is renewable for as long as you want ,if you surrender it the $1000 bond is returned to you
2, you can find a bare claim and buy it from the owners, (usually at an enflated value) but you can move on it striaght away, and start building , rental and rates are the same as no 1, I recently sold one for $3500,and bought another at $5000, ( more prospects for sapphire,)
3, Buy an already established place, (house, shack, tin shed, van,) for you to live in, plus machinary plant to mine ,and settle in immediatly, rental and rates same again as no 1, these can go for as high as $100,000 dollars
what you do with it after you have the title is entirely up to you, some stay all the year round , ( there is a lot of here,) some do the same as we do and go picking cherries and head for the cooler climates in summer, or cover the rest of the country using this place as a base
The place is populated by nomads, V/veterans, and mostly senior cits and your only expences once established is food fuel and your yearly rates,, hope all this helps a little, Mike
My neighbour has just dug up a yellow sapphire , got it cut and polished and sold it for $8500, better than lotto, and you keep fit with the digging
pic is a view of the diggings from a mound of tailings, you can also google it on the earth program