NRS-10396 | Registers of mining tenements [Lightning Ridge Warden's Office]

The information given in these registers includes: style of co-partnership; description and locality of tenement; number of tenement; names of shareholders; shares created - date of registering and register number of shares; miners' rights - number and date; reference to lien register - folio and number of lien; transfer - number and date; transferee; and miners' rights - number and date. Sketch plans showing the location of tenements are sometimes included. Volumes 7/10215-16 are labelled 'Transfer from Old Registers' and contain subsequent papers relating to the original tenements such as renewals of registration and notices of abandonment. (7/10109-216). 108 vols. Note: This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.