To generally promote prospecting, fossicking, and small-scale mining in Tasmania.
To promote awareness of the traditional right to undertake these activities.
To achieve Government and regulatory authority recognition of the importance of these activities to the State economy.
Basic objectives
To disseminate information about prospecting, fossicking, and small scale mining, including rights, rules and opportunities.
To provide a platform for the sharing of information about these activities.
To provide a platform for organising field trips and other activities related to prospecting, fossicking, and small scale mining.
To liaise with stakeholders such as regulatory authorities and tenement holders so as to further the opportunities to fossick, prospect and small-scale-mine in Tasmania.
To lobby Government and regulatory authorities in order to increase awareness of issues related to prospecting, fossicking, and small scale mining, and and achieve outcomes beneficial to prospectors, fossickers and small-scale miners.