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Australian Mineral Exploration: Sunshine after Storms?

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Although exploration is languishing at a 20 year low, the outlook is the best for five years. Metal prices are forecast to improve over the next several years. Australia remains highly prospective and discoveries continue to be made both in proven and greenfields provinces. Exploration in the past 10 years has added significant resources - notably gold, nickel, mineral sands, tantalum - at low cost. Major potential exists undercover. As a result of Government programs over the past decade, a wealth of geoscience data is available either free or at very low cost. These are playing an important role in opening up the under explored frontier provinces to exploration.

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Title Australian Mineral Exploration: Sunshine after Storms?
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/2e95e9ef-f0b9-48cf-b517-79ea3b8ecffb
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Mineral Exploration: Sunshine after Storms?". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-mineral-exploration-sunshine-after-storms