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Cooper Basin region: Other resource potential data guide

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Publicly available geological data in the Cooper Basin region are compiled to produce statements of existing knowledge for natural hydrogen, hydrogen storage, coal and mineral occurrences. This data guide also contains assessment of the potential for carbon dioxide (CO2) geological storage and minerals in the basin region. Geochemical analysis of gas samples from petroleum in the basin shows various concentrations of natural hydrogen. However, the generation mechanism of the observed natural hydrogen concentration is still unknown. The mineral occurrences are all found in the overlying basins and are small and of little economic significance. The Cooper Basin has some potential for base metal and uranium deposits due to somewhat suitable formation conditions, but the depth of the basin makes exploration and mining difficult and expensive. This also applies to coal, where there are no identified occurrences or resources in the Cooper Basin. However, if some were identified, the depth of the basin would probably make extraction uneconomic, with the potential exception of coal seam gas extraction. CO2 geological storage assessment in the overlying Eromanga Basin suggests that most areas over the Cooper Basin (except over the Weena Trough in the south-west) are prospective for geological storage CO2.

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Title Cooper Basin region: Other resource potential data guide
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/1c5625cb-6fcf-4600-9575-9521fef601df
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 08/04/2019
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Cooper Basin region: Other resource potential data guide". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/cooper-basin-region-other-resource-potential-data-guide