Title-search tools, native-title portals, reporting pages and other authoritative government pages.18 links
Application/change/surrender forms for minerals prospecting, exploration and mining permits.
Application/change/surrender forms for petroleum permits.
How to use the public permit map GIS apps.
Prospecting / exploration / mining permit types explained.
Prospecting / exploration / mining (petroleum) permit types explained.
The regulator — part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).
Primary Act for Crown-owned minerals — creates the permit system.
Procedural regulations for non-petroleum (minerals/coal) permits.
Procedural regulations for petroleum permits.
Resource consents (land disturbance, discharge, etc.) sit alongside, not instead of, a Crown Minerals permit.
NZP&M's own guidance on iwi/hapū consultation and permit-holder engagement obligations — the closest NZ equivalent to a native title process.
Formerly Te Arawhiti (tearawhiti.govt.nz now redirects here) — the government office for Treaty settlements and Māori Crown relations.
Annual work-programme and technical reporting obligations for minerals permit holders.
Annual summary reporting obligations for petroleum permit holders.
Royalty/fee obligations attaching to a granted permit.
Public GIS map of current minerals permits and applications.
Public GIS map of current petroleum permits and applications.
Search NZP&M's own permit register directly (permit number, holder, status).