ABSTRACT
All of the gold bubble companies used essentially the same parameters in planning their operations overseas. Arguably their most important assumption was that there would be little trouble in securing auriferous land; either by acquiring mining tenements on public land, or by leasing or purchasing private lands with attaching mineral rights. This chapter summarises the evolution of mining laws in Britain, California and the eastern Australian colonies, and their effects on the preconceived plans of the gold-bubble companies.
