New South Wales contains a wide range of industrial mineral mines, quarries, resources and occurrences, and has geological environments with potential to find even more. The New South Wales Industrial Minerals Database records over 9000 sites, including construction materials, clays, dimension stone, mineral sands, gemstones and other industrial minerals. Over 100 different commodities are recorded in the database. The Industrial Minerals Database aims to encourage exploration for and development of industrial mineral resources, and provide data for informed land use planning.

The AGSO Web server now has a page that allows public access to many of AGSO's Oracle database lookup tables. These tables are the key to the nomenclature and classifications used in our geoscientific databases, and provide a valuable resource to many Australian geologists. For example, the geological time scale table provides a comprehensive list of time terms used in Australia and elsewhere, their rank, scope, parent term and older and younger age boundaries in millions of years PB - according to the latest information. Or, the OZMIN mineral deposits attributes table, with nearly 2000 terms, provides a complete and authoritative classification of Australian ore deposits, as well as other attributes such as alteration, mineralisation style, gangue minerals, ore texture and relationships to host. with nearly 4500 terms, the largest of the 37 tables so far included is the extent-names table for our metadata system. The smallest, with just 9 terms, is the analyte categories table for the GWATER database. The table may be downloaded from the Web, or alternatively you may purchase them as ASCII files, as per AGSO Catalog No. 24488.

The South Australian Proterozoic OZCHEM database subset is comprised of 680 wholerock analyses derived from AGSO field work and the literature. Data are from the Adelaide Fold Belt, Gawler Craton and Stuart Shelf. AGSO's complete OZCHEM database contains approximately 50000 analyses, mainly from Australia but some are also from Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, Solomon Islands and New Zealand. Approximately 32000 analyses of Australian rocks of all ages and some New Zealand Tertiary volcanics are available for sale. The location is stored with each analysis along with geological descriptions, including the host stratigraphic unit and lithology. Most samples have been collected by AGSO field parties.OZCHEM is stored in an ORACLE relational database and is available in Oracle export, comma-delimited relational ASCII, and Microsoft Access formats.

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Datasets of wind speed purchased from BoM to develop Record 2007/12

OZCHEM is Geoscience Australia's national whole-rock geochemical database. This release of OZCHEM contains approximately 32000 analyses of rocks from many regions of Australia. Each analysis includes a geographic location and a geological description, which includes the host stratigraphic unit, where known, and the lithology. Most samples have been collected by Geoscience Australia's field parties. OZCHEM is stored in an ORACLE relational database and is available in comma-delimited flat ASCII, Microsoft Access, Arcview and Mapinfo formats. The data set is also bundled with detailed documentation which explains the database structure and includes definitions of the database tables and columns (attributes). The documentation includes summaries and highlights of all the regional datasets that comprise OZCHEM and is available in both acrobat reader and Microsoft word document formats.

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This is a dataset of the world divided into 1° by 1° blocks, in the WGS84 datum. The blocks are organised and named using the International UTM Map Index and contain attribution concerning name, area and point of origin. The dataset is intended to assist with offshore fisheries, petroleum and minerals licensing by providing a regular graticulated system of blocks. The blocks were created using the same method as used for the Australian Offshore Minerals Blocks, and have used the same naming convention, which is derived from the map sheets. The blocks have been densified with a vertex added every 30 seconds to ensure they display correctly regardless of map projection.

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