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A Review of Australian Salt Lakes and Assessment of their Potential for Strategic Resources

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Globally, salt lakes are major sources of lithium, potash, borates and other strategic mineral commodities. Salt lakes, or salars, in the semi-arid to arid regions of Chile, Peru, Argentina and Bolivia contain most of the world's low cost supply of lithium, while salt lakes in Jordan, Israel and China are significant sources of potash. Despite the large number of salt lakes distributed across Australia, public domain knowledge of saline lakes and their associated groundwater systems as potential sources for lithium, potash and other commodities is limited. This report has reviewed the publicly available information on Australian salt lakes and is accompanied by four maps showing which lakes have the highest potential for lithium, boron, potash and calcrete-hosted uranium.

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Title A Review of Australian Salt Lakes and Assessment of their Potential for Strategic Resources
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/59f5abea-77e2-445b-a9db-3b75282cd68b
Contact Point
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        110.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        158.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        158.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "A Review of Australian Salt Lakes and Assessment of their Potential for Strategic Resources". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/a-review-of-australian-salt-lakes-and-assessment-of-their-potential-for-strategic-resources