Australian Mineral Occurrences Collection

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

The collection supports the compilation of national mineral resource and production statistics, and mineral prospectivity analysis. The collection includes the OZMIN database (Australian mineral deposit descriptions including geological, resource and production data); the MINLOC database (mineral occurrence locations sourced from Geoscience Australia and state and territory geological surveys); supporting GIS datasets (eg,mineral prospectivity datasets, ports, power stations); maps and reports.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Australian Mineral Occurrences Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/621a606a-41d2-45ac-8d4b-91485c111191
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        114.0,
        -42.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -42.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -11.0
      ],
      [
        114.0,
        -11.0
      ],
      [
        114.0,
        -42.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Mineral Occurrences Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-mineral-occurrences-collection