A review of mineral exploration trends and activities in Australia in 2011.

This is a promotional flyer for the Austrlian Mines Atlas that is handed out at conferences and other events. The flyer explains what is available through the Australian Mines Atlas website.

Full-colour map summarises the major Proterozoic mafic-ultramafic magmatic events in the NT and SA. Eighteen events are recognised with three of these (~1810 Ma, ~1130 Ma,~520 Ma or younger) mineralised (Ni, Cu, Co, PGEs). Inset maps show the distribution of Proterozoic and Archaean rocks, mineral occurrences, large igneous provinces, time-space-event chart, and geophysical-elevation imagery. Geological Map (1:4,000,000 Scale)

National map which identifies Australia's major current mines and undeveloped mineral deposits overlayed on a simplified geological regions and infrastructure coverage.

National map which identifies Australia's major current and historic mines and yet-to-be-developed mineral deposits overlayed on the main mineralised geological regions and infrastructure themes (population centres, major road and rail networks, oil and gas fields and pipelines, oil refineries, export ports for mineral commodities, and major power generating sites).

The Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, is not only one of the largest extant fragments of Archean crust in the world, but is also one of the most richly-mineralised regions in the world. Understanding the evolution of the craton is important, therefore, for constraining Archean geodynamics, and the influence of such on Archean mineral systems. The Yilgarn Craton is dominated by felsic intrusive rocks - over 70% of the rock types. As such these rocks hold a significant part of the key to understanding the four-dimensional evolution of the craton, providing constraints on the nature and timing of crustal growth, the role of the mantle, and also the timing of important switches in crustal growth geodynamics. The granites also provide constraints on the nature and age of the crustal domains within the craton. Importantly, this crustal pre-history appears to have exerted a significant, but poorly understood, spatial control on the distribution of mineral systems, such as gold, komatiite-associated nickel sulphide and volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) base metal systems

Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual nation-wide assessment of Australia's ore reserves and mineral resources.

This documentation manual for the national mineral deposits dataset provides the necessary description of AGSO's mineral deposit database (OZMIN) - its structure, the main data and authority tables used by OZMIN, database table definitions, details on the Microsoft Access version of the database and a listing of those deposits in the dataset.

This publication is the sucessor to Oil and Gas Resources 1999 and continues as the definitive reference on exploration, development and production of Australia's petroleum resources. It covers exploration, reserves, undiscovered resources, development, production and supporting information and statistics. It includes a forecast of Australia's crude oil and condensate production from 2001 to 2015, and sustainability indicators for petroleum resources. Information on Australia's petroleum data availability is also included. A revised estimate of Australia's undiscovered resources is included. The Appendices describe wells drilled and seismic surveys carried out in 1999 and 2000. There is also a chronological listing of offshore and onshore oil and gas discoveries to 2000, listings of all petroleum platforms and pipelines, and a map showing all Australian petroleum exploration and development titles, with a key of title holders and interests as at March 2001. OGRA 2000 provides the background for much of the advice on petroleum resources given to the Australian government and is a key source for petroleum exploration, production and service companies, petroleum engineers and geologists, energy analysts, stockbrokers and share investors.

Thematic map showing the distribution and age of Australia's diamond deposits and related rock types