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National mineral potential assessment for sediment-hosted copper mineral systems in Australia Version 1.0

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Sediment-hosted copper (Cu) mineral systems are important sources of base metals and critical minerals such as cobalt that are vital to delivering Australia’s low-carbon economy. In Australia, sediment-hosted Cu resources account for ~11% of the total Cu resources. Given their significance to the Australian economy, national-scale mineral potential models for sediment-hosted Cu have been developed. In addition to the potential for sediment-hosted Cu mineralisation, the uncertainty related to data availability has been examined. Three mineral potential models derived from the combination of two mineral systems have been derived from a large volume of precompetitive geoscience data combined with mineral systems expertise, each using a different combination of input maps to assess the influence of incomplete data on the results. The mineral potential models successfully predict the location of major sediment-hosted stratiform Cu and Mount Isa-type Cu deposits while highlighting new areas of elevated prospectivity in under-explored regions of Australia, reducing the exploration search space by up to ~84%.

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Title National mineral potential assessment for sediment-hosted copper mineral systems in Australia Version 1.0
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/5b063315-5ebc-415d-a0b9-a5323cf36fad
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Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 10/08/2023
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
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      ],
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      ]
    ]
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}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "National mineral potential assessment for sediment-hosted copper mineral systems in Australia Version 1.0". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/national-mineral-potential-assessment-for-sediment-hosted-copper-mineral-systems-in-australia-v