Can an RTO still enrol new students in RII30515?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 23 September 2021. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in RII30515?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

RII30515 Certificate III in Mining Exploration

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

RII30515Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Mining Exploration
equivalent
RII30520CurrentCertificate III in Mining Exploration

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

RII30513RII30515equivalent13 December 2015
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
RII30515RII30520equivalent22 September 2020
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for RII30515 and for its training package RII (release 11.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

RII30515_R2.docxRII30515 release 2 · product document · published 26 November 2024
RII30515_R2.pdfRII30515 release 2 · product document · published 11 December 2018
RII Release 11.1 Companion Volume September 2026Companion Volume · RII release 11.0 · PDF · 3 September 2026

Is RII30515 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether RII30515 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What RII30515 is made of

training.gov.au lists 24 units for RII30515: 7 core and 17 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 7 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
HLTAID003	Provide first aid	not current
RIICOM201D	Communicate in the workplace	not current
RIIENV201D	Identify and assess environmental and heritage concerns	not current
RIIQUA201D	Maintain and monitor site quality standards	not current
RIIRIS201D	Conduct local risk control	not current
RIISTD202D	Collect routine site samples	not current
RIIWHS201D	Work safely and follow WHS policies and procedures	not current

Elective units 17 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
BSBDIV301	Work effectively with diversity	not current
BSBSUS401	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	not current
CPPSIS3016	Provide field support services for surveying and spatial projects	not current
HLTAID006	Provide advanced first aid	not current
RIICAR301D	Rehabilitate exploration site	current
RIIEGS201D	Operate in isolated and remote situations	current
RIIEGS301D	Operate and maintain instruments and field equipment	not current
RIIEGS302D	Plan and undertake field trip	current
RIIEGS303D	Provide geological field assistance	not current
RIIEGS304D	Mobilise equipment and materials	not current
RIIEGS305D	Navigate in remote or trackless areas	not current
RIIEGS306D	Prepare drill site	not current
RIIRIS202D	Respond to site based spills	not current
RIISAM209D	Carry out operational maintenance	not current
RIISTD301D	Take environmental samples and measurements	current
RIISTD302D	Process data and maintain accurate records	not current
RIIVEH305E	Operate and maintain a four wheel drive vehicle	not current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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