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Australia's Identified Mineral Resources: Taking on the four horsemen of the apocalypse

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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The year 2020 has, for many people, seemed apocalyptic: the unprecedented fires of the summer, damaging storms, locust plagues, the global pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions. The Australian resources sector offers hope for combating war, pestilence, famine and death by providing the raw materials, including critical minerals, for making modern technologies and developing new ones. We use minerals for renewable energy, defence capability, medical diagnostics and treatment, transport, communications, entertainment and agriculture. The Australian Government has assessed the nation's minerals inventory since 1975, recognising that understanding our identified resource potential is the first step to realising the responsible production of the minerals needed for longer, healthier and wealthier human life across the world. In 2020 and beyond, Australia's minerals sector has an opportunity to spearhead the Covid-19 recovery and support the technologies needed for a cleaner, environmentally robust and prosperous planet - stopping the four horsemen in their tracks.

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Title Australia's Identified Mineral Resources: Taking on the four horsemen of the apocalypse
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/8c96a2fe-1356-4758-936e-aa6b490660d2
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 08/04/2019
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australia's Identified Mineral Resources: Taking on the four horsemen of the apocalypse". 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-taking-on-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse