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Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation (2024 update)

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 19/11/2025

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Herein we present the results of an updated national compilation of mineral deposits (available in Excel or CSV format) for Australia. The deposits were selected as they have substantial endowment (i.e., pre-mining mineral resource) and/or detailed geological information is available. For each deposit (or, in some cases, district) the dataset includes information on: 1. Name (including synonyms), location and GA identifying numbers; 2. Tectonic province that hosts the deposit; 3. Type(s) and age(s) of mineralising events that produced/affected the deposit (including metadata on ages); 4. The geological endowment of the deposit; 5. A summary of known and potential major (main and co-) and minor (by‑) products based on economic value; 6. The host rocks to the deposit; 7. Spatially and/or temporally associated magmatic rocks; 8. Spatially and temporally associated alteration assemblages (mostly proximal, but, in some cases, regional assemblages); 9. The Fe-S-O minerals present in the deposit and their relative abundances; 10. Sulfate minerals present; 11. Metamorphic grade; 12. Data sources; and 13. Comments. This document presents more detailed descriptions of the metadata presented in the compilation. The dataset is presented in Appendix A; Appendix B presents a national classification of geological provinces based mostly on existing State survey classifications; Appendix C presents a deposit classification based on the classification proposed by Hofstra et al. (2021); Appendix D presents mineral abbreviations used in the dataset; and Appendix E presents value calculations to determined major and minor commodities.

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Title Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation (2024 update)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a77b1238-a1ed-41fe-b53e-7bef4952dfb3
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Geoscience Australia Data
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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    [
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        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
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        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation (2024 update)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geological-setting-age-and-endowment-of-major-australian-mineral-deposits-a-compilation-2024-up