Australian Operating Mines Map 2021

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This map shows the location and status, as at 31 December 2021, of Australian operating mines, mines under development and mines under care and maintenance. Developing mines are deposits where the project has a positive feasibility study, development has commenced or all approvals have been received. Mines under care and maintenance have known resource estimations and may be mined or developed in the future.

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Field Value
Title Australian Operating Mines Map 2021
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f5cb12ee-a311-4953-952c-87b7cd4feb8f
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        108.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        156.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        156.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        108.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        108.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Operating Mines Map 2021". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-operating-mines-map-2021