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Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2004

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Australian mineral exploration spending in 2003-04 rose by 7.4% to $786.7 million of which 39% was spent on the search for new deposits. Total global non-ferrous mineral exploration budgets rose 58% to an estimated US$3.8 billion in 2004. All States except New South Wales and the Northern Territory recorded increases in mineral exploration activity. Western Australia dominated with $465.8 million, 59.2% of total Australian mineral exploration expenditure in 2003-04. Gold was the major commodity sought with spending of $397.1 million, (50.5% of the total). There were significant increases in iron ore, nickel and uranium exploration. Company exploration activities generated a significant number of drill intersections of economic interest, particularly for gold and nickel, in a number of mineral provinces.

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Title Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2004
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d7782377-0d23-44df-a563-7dd26920cbed
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2004". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-mineral-exploration-a-review-of-exploration-for-the-year-2004