The area of the Avon River Basin is over 11.8 million hectares. Of this area, 8.3 million hectares has been made available primarily for free-hold agricultural use and 3.5 million hectares in the east of the basin is vacant crown land. Within this area there are five pastoral leases (Bronte, Carrinta, Ennuin, Golden Valley and Kawana) that cover an area of 244 167 ha (approximately 7% of the Crown/pastoral zone and 2% of the Avon River Basin) for the purpose of grazing (Map 4). The remaining 93% of the Crown/Pastoral Zone is currently managed for conservation purposes under a variety of Crown land tenures including CALM reserves and leases, Crown leases and vacant Crown land.

In addition there are 401 individual mining leases totalling 160 076 ha that cover other land tenures. The mining industry, in particular gold mining comprises a diverse group in terms of size of operators and types of operations. These range from individual miners working small alluvial deposits to major companies with large open pit and underground operations. Very little is known about resource condition in the Crown/pastoral zone.