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NSW Resource Exploration Map Blocks

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 18/10/2025

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Geographical grid pattern based on the 1:1000000 international map series for the State of New South Wales facilitating the description of resource exploration title areas. A BLOCK identifies an area of 5 minutes of Latitude by 5 minutes of Longitude and is referenced by the 1:1000000 international map series name and a number from 1 through 3456. Map Blocks are further described by the NSW Mining Regulation 2016, Part 1, Clause 10: https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/regulation/2016/498/part1/sec10 And by Schedule 4 – Sections 1 through 3: https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/regulation/2016/498/sch4

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Title NSW Resource Exploration Map Blocks
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/06e6b336-4e52-401b-9aac-5978c1eb5115
Remote Last Updated 08/10/2025
Contact Point
Department of Regional New South Wales
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 06/09/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        140,
        -40.0
      ],
      [
        140,
        -26.0
      ],
      [
        166.0,
        -26.0
      ],
      [
        166.0,
        -40.0
      ],
      [
        140,
        -40.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "srid": 4283,
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "NSW Resource Exploration Map Blocks". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-nsw-resource-exploration-map-blocks