Vermiculite in Australia

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 19/11/2025

Western Australia is the only State from which vermiculite is produced. Occurrences are known in some of the other states and in the Northern Territory, but the information is not sufficiently detailed to enable their importance to be assessed. Vermiculite occurrence by State and Territory, and processing capabilities, are detailed in this report.

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Field Value
Title Vermiculite in Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/d68fb1e6-e9f8-470b-9bd4-584215ccef1d
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 17/11/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        110.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        156.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        156.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Vermiculite in Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/vermiculite-in-australia