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| Thread ID: 132118 | 2013-05-07 07:26:00 | Mining under your house. | mzee (3324) | PC World Chat |
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| 1339973 | 2013-05-07 07:26:00 | Apart from the danger of subsidence and noise there are other things to be considered. Just how deep is your section? Should you be able to claim Royalties on the minerals found below? If not, would you be able to charge for any materials removed? Could you be trespassing if you dug a well? | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1339974 | 2013-05-07 09:31:00 | Jed Clampett did all right when he discovered oil on his property. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1339975 | 2013-05-07 10:56:00 | Better to discover Ellie Mae. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1339976 | 2013-05-07 11:14:00 | They could try digging a DEEP septic tank to pass on their sentiments. ( or is tht sediments?) | PPp (9511) | ||
| 1339977 | 2013-05-07 11:27:00 | Apart from the danger of subsidence and noise there are other things to be considered. Just how deep is your section? Should you be able to claim Royalties on the minerals found below? If not, would you be able to charge for any materials removed? Could you be trespassing if you dug a well? I've actually wondered these things myself, as well as in the other direction (up) |
pablo d (15490) | ||
| 1339978 | 2013-05-07 11:33:00 | Perhaps you could sink a bore for water I would have thought. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1339979 | 2013-05-07 11:56:00 | You own the top few inches of your land. You do not own it to any significant depth. Even if you did, all minerals reside in the Crown. You can only mine with a licence from the Crown and royalties are payable. In most situations its academic and the Crown doesn't get excited about gravel or clay or topsoil. You do need a resource consent to dig such materials in bulk. Always seems a bit unfair to me, having dug and carted loads of gravel on the farm in the distant past, but that's the rules these days. A bore for household use and (I think) stock is ok but anything bigger requires a resource consent. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 1339980 | 2013-05-07 12:08:00 | They could try digging a DEEP septic tank to pass on their sentiments. ( or is tht sediments?) "between 130 metres and 350m below the residential area" that's some long drop :D |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1339981 | 2013-05-07 19:45:00 | Speedy delivery then. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1339982 | 2013-05-07 22:19:00 | Yup, the Crown own the sub-surface resources, and the profits from selling them, you on the other hand get to enjoy the problems from having your home gradually settle into a mine. I live near (but in theory not over) an old abandoned underground coal mine. I swear there are regular instances of feeling the ground rumble and thump, with no activity outdoors triggering it, and nothing registering on Geonet. I reckon it's the old mines collapsing (ie the underground void moving upwards as the overlying soil drops downwards). Obviously, the closer that void gets to the surface, the more likely it becomes that someones home will start to sink and warp... which is not the way anyone wants to see the cost of overpriced housing become corrected. My whole suburb might be the next Christchurch if it is the mines collapsing. They were mined about a century ago, so their extent and depth is barely known, and with them being flooded nobody's going down there to map them. |
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