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The Levelled Geochemical Baseline of Australia - Update 2024

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Geochemistry of soils, stream sediments, and overbank sediments, plays an important part in informing geochemical environmental baselines, mineral prospectivity, and environmental management practices. Australia has a large number of such surveys, but they are spatially isolated and often used in isolation. First released in 2020, the Levelled Geochemical Baseline of Australia focused on levelling such surveys across the North Australian Craton, so that they could be used as a seamless dataset. This data release acts as an update to the Levelled Geochemical Baseline of Australia by changing the focus to national scale and incorporating recently reanalysed legacy samples.

This work was undertaken as part of the Exploring for the Future program, an eight-year program by the Australian government. The Exploring for the Future program provides precompetitive information to inform decision-making by government, community and industry on the sustainable development of Australia's mineral, energy and groundwater resources. By gathering, analysing and interpreting new and existing precompetitive geoscience data and knowledge, we are building a national picture of Australia’s geology and resource potential. This leads to a strong economy, resilient society and sustainable environment for the benefit of all Australians. This includes supporting Australia’s transition to net zero emissions, strong, sustainable resources and agriculture sectors, and economic opportunities and social benefits for Australia’s regional and remote communities. The Exploring for the Future program, which commenced in 2016, was an eight year, $225m investment by the Australian Government.

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Title The Levelled Geochemical Baseline of Australia - Update 2024
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f77e9182-033c-42ef-bff8-ad083a6c9418
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 07/08/2024
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "The Levelled Geochemical Baseline of Australia - Update 2024". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/the-levelled-geochemical-baseline-of-australia-update-2024