Royalty for minerals and petroleum

If you are a mining authority holder, you have an annual return period if:

• the operation does not contain any mining leases, and we have not told you that the operation has a quarterly return period
  or
• the operation contains at least one mining lease, and we tell you that the operation has an annual return period.

If you are a petroleum producer (including non-tenure holders who are being treated as a producer), you must lodge returns by a calendar quarter or a financial year.

Read about royalty return periods.

You can download PDF versions of:

• royalty forms
• mineral royalty annual package
• petroleum royalty annual package.

You can lodge returns via QRO Online. Learn how to lodge a royalty return.

Apart from a few exemptions, royalty is payable on all mineral and petroleum resources extracted in Queensland.

Where these resources are extracted from the area of a resource authority (such as a mining or petroleum lease), the holder of the authority is responsible for paying royalty. This applies even in situations where the holder allows someone else to extract minerals or petroleum.

Find out about:

• calculating mineral royalty
• calculating petroleum royalty.