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Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2008

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Updated 17/10/2025

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Australian mineral exploration spending in 2007-081 rose by 41% to a record $2461.4 million2 of which 44% was spent on the search for new deposits3. Spending rose in all States and the Northern Territory; Western Australia dominated with 51% of Australian mineral exploration spending. Base metals were the dominant target with 32% of exploration spending while gold was the major commodity sought with 24% of total spending. Exploration results were announced for a wide range of commodities from across the country with significant increases in resources at the Prominent Hill copper-gold project in South Australia, Cadia gold-copper project in New South Wales, Cloncurry copper and gold project in Queensland and the Solomon iron ore project in Western Australia. High-grade nickel intersections were reported from the Spotted Quoll and Lounge Lizard deposits in Western Australia.

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Title Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2008
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e27756ce-28da-40a9-9e04-7fc1b7879377
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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 2008". 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-2008