Product catalogue
Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2020
Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual national assessment that takes a long-term view of Australian mineral resources likely to be available for mining. The assessment also includes evaluations of long-term trends in mineral resources, world rankings, summaries of significant exploration results and brief reviews of mining industry developments.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-01-11T09:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-02-04T21:40:36
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-03-05T04:23:34
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144533
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/1327-1466.2020
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Senior, A.
Author Britt, A.F.
Author Summerfield, D.
Author Hughes, A.
MEG Internal Contact Author Hitchman, A.
Author Cross, A.
MEG Internal Contact Author Champion, D.
Author Huston, D.
Author Bastrakov, E.N.
Author Sexton, M.
Author Moloney, J.
MEG Internal Contact Author Pheeney, J.
Author Teh, M.
MEG Internal Contact Author Schofield, A.
- Name
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Australia's Identified Mineral Resources (AIMR)
- Issue identification
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2020
- Purpose
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An annual national assessment that provides a long-term view of Australia’s mineral resources, including inventories, trends, world rankings and the distribution of resources geographically and at operating mines and deposits.
The report supports government policy and planning decisions for the minerals sector, including the sustainable development of Australia's mineral resources.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
External Contact Point of contact Britt, A.
MEG Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
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not applicable
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal element
- Time period
- 2015-01 2015-12
Extent
))
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- Keywords
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mineral resources
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AIMR_151352
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mineral commodity
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minerals inventory
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national inventory
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reserves
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resources
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mining
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production
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mineral exploration
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resource trends
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mineral exports
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mineral value
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
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Earth Sciences
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Economics
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Geology
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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Download the report (pdf) [30.1 MB]
Download the report (pdf) [30.1 MB]
- Distribution format
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pdf
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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Prior to 1997, AIMR resources were as at 31 December of the year stated in the title
From 1997, AIMR resources were as at 31 December of the year prior to that stated in the title.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
- Title
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European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-11-12T00:00:00
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details European Petroleum Survey Group
http://www.epsg-registry.org/
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/245691db-7a35-4e75-9022-85fb6138a818
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Britt, A.F.
Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Document
- Name
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GA Report
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/144533
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-09-28T04:35:53.684Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-04-29T10:42:03
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-09-28T05:22:41.187Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551