New Zealand
Overview
New Zealand Petroleum and Minerals is the agency that leads and actively manages the New Zealand government's petroleum and minerals portfolio.
Applications, Compliance, Reporting and Fees
- Apply for a new minerals permit
- Complying with your minerals permit
- Annual summary reports
- Technical reporting
- Minerals permit fees, royalties and the Energy Resources Levy
- Regulator's Update – July 2026
- Fast-track approvals process
- Kermadec mineral reservation, 5 January 2026 to 4 January 2028
- GST on Energy Resources Levies from 1 July 2026
New Zealand Permit Types
NZP&M issues three current types of minerals permit under the Crown Minerals Act 1991:
- Prospecting Permit
- Exploration Permit
- Mining Permit
Permits are classified as Tier 1, Tier 2 or Tier 3 according to scale, risk and impact. Tier 3 applies to qualifying small-scale gold mining. Gold fossicking areas allow recreational fossicking without a permit subject to the applicable rules. Historical licences may still appear in records but are not current application types.
See current minerals permit types and tiers. A minerals permit does not itself provide land access.
Mined in New Zealand
- Aggregate
- Aluminium
- Andesite
- Antimony
- Apatite
- Argillite
- Barite
- Basalt
- Bentonite
- Bismuth
- Building Stone
- Calcite
- Cassiterite
- Clay
- Coal
- Conglomerate
- Copper
- Dacite
- Decorative Pebbles
- Decorative Stone
- Diamond
- Diatomite
- Dolomite
- Dunite
- Feldspar
- Fireclay
- Fluorite
- Garnet
- Gemstones
- Glauconite
- Gold
- Granite
- Graphite
- Gravel
- Greywacke
- Ignimbrite
- Ilmenite
- Iridium
- Iron
- Ironsand
- Kauri Gum
- Lead
- Lignite
- Limestone
- Magnesite
- Magnesium
- Magnetite
- Manganese
- Marble
- Marl
- Molybdenum
- Monazite
- Mudstone
- Nephrite
- Nickel
- Osmium
- Palladium
- Peat
- Perlite
- Phosphate
- Platinum Group Metals
- Potash
- Pumice
- Quartz
- Rare Earth Elements
- Rhodium
- Rhyolite
- Rock
- Ruthenium
- Rutile
- Salt
- Sand
- Sandstone
- Schist
- Scoria
- Serpentinite
- Silica
- Silica Sand
- Siltstone
- Silver
- Slate
- Sulphur
- Talc
- Tantalum
- Tin
- Titanium
- Topaz
- Tuff
- Tungsten
- Vanadium
- Volcanic Ash
- Wax
- Zeolite
- Zinc
- Zircon
