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Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2007

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Geoscience Australia provides information on the nation's future capacity to produce mineral resources. Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual nation-wide assessment of Australia's ore reserves and mineral resources. All major and a number of minor mineral commodities mined in Australia are assessed. It includes international rankings, summaries of significant exploration results, brief reviews of mining industry developments, and an analysis of mineral exploration expenditure across the States and Northern Territory. AIMR provides governments, industry, the investment sector and general community with an informed understanding of Australia's known mineral endowment and level of exploration activity. An important objective is to monitor whether resources are being discovered and developed for production at rates sufficient to maintain Australia's position as a major supplier of mineral commodities. Australia's economic demonstrated resources (EDR) of the following mineral commodities increased during 2006 - black coal, copper, gold, iron ore, rutile, zircon, platinum group metals, silver, tin, tungsten and vanadium. EDR of bauxite, cobalt, diamond (gem and industrial), lead, manganese, nickel, uranium and zinc decreased in the same period. EDR for brown coal, magnesite, molybdenum, niobium, shale oil and tantalum remained at levels similar to those reported in 2005. Estimates of Australia's resources of coal bed methane gas are reported for the first time in AIMR. Increases in EDR were due to on-going drilling and evaluation of known deposits resulting in the transfer (re-assessment) of resources from inferred or sub-economic categories into EDR, and discoveries of new deposits or extensions of known deposits. Sustained increases in prices for most metal and mineral commodities over recent years has allowed companies re-assess the economic viability of lower grade resources and deposits which were previously considered to be uneconomic. Overall this has contributed to an increase in EDR for many metal and mineral commodities.

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Title Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2007
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2375112e-16d9-4640-8003-b6661e4b9047
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2007". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australias-identified-mineral-resources-2007