Geoscience Australia Borehole Database (BOREHOLE)

The Geoscience Australia Boreholes database (BOREHOLE) includes borehole header and directional survey data from: 1. boreholes drilled by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations (BMR, AGSO), 2. all resource exploration boreholes drilled in Australian Commonwealth offshore marine jurisdictions, 3. a selection of Australian onshore mineral exploration, groundwater, geothermal and seismic boreholes, and 4. a small number of research-related boreholes outside of the Australian jurisdiction.


Geoscience Australia is not a reporting or regulatory authority for borehole drilling. Borehole information in the Geoscience Australia Boreholes database is sourced from various regulatory authorities in the States, Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments for Geoscience Australia research purposes. Where Geoscience Australia is not the custodian of borehole data provided in this database, the custodian agency provided with the data should be consulted as the authoritative source.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-01-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2021-09-03T01:27:04
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/126310

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/126310

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Custodian

Raymond, O.
Purpose

The BOREHOLE database manages and delivers borehole header and directional survey data.

Status
On going
Point of contact
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

Hawkins, S.

 MEG Internal Contact
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

Variable. Borehole location accuracy ranges from <1 metre to >1000 metres.

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
1995-01-01

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Keywords

  • HVC_144618

Feature type

  • borehole

Theme

  • groundwater

Theme

  • geology

Theme

  • mineral exploration

Theme

  • energy exploration

Theme

  • stratigraphy

Theme

  • borehole logging

Project

  • EFTF

Project

  • Exploring For The Future

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2021

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WMS

Citation identifier
144576

Citation identifier
34e8cf4a-2aea-4911-a5e9-6b5ad2f2e6a7

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/144576

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

Citation identifier
144577

Citation identifier
7aa44ec6-0bfe-4d96-9f43-f75049abe089

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/144577

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WMTS

Citation identifier
144578

Citation identifier
dfbbc1fe-bbc1-4baa-b8f3-e3a21966978d

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/144578

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Informed
Title

Geoscience Australia Vocabularies - Geoscience Database Vocabulary Terms

Citation identifier
148553

Citation identifier
c20904bc-b7f0-4a87-b110-d3b64b0bbf10

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/148553

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Informed
Title

Vocabularies for Geoscience Australia Geological Databases, 2022

Citation identifier
145746

Citation identifier
df23f162-3590-4614-9aa0-23febcf5dc19

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145746

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WMS

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WMS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WMS

OnLine resource

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WFS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WFS

OnLine resource

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WMTS

Australian Onshore and Offshore Boreholes WMTS

Distribution format

  • OGC:WMTS

Resource lineage

Statement

The Geoscience Australia (GA) boreholes Oracle database (BOREHOLE) is the successor to several previous relational databases (SECTHOLES, DEVIANT, WELLS, HOLES). The data includes records of: 1. boreholes drilled by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations (BMR, AGSO), 2. a selection of Australian onshore mineral exploration, groundwater, geothermal and seismic boreholes, 3. a small number of research-related boreholes outside of the Australian jurisdiction, and 4. records of all Australian offshore petroleum exploration wells. GA used to be the official regulatory repository of offshore well data, but that role is now undertaken by NOPTA. GA's data is a synchronised copy of the NOPTA database with extra attribute information attached to each well.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/1cdaee5d-5b7b-459e-b11b-f567ed27f28a

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Hawkins, S.

 MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

Boreholes Database (BOREHOLE)

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/126310

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1cdaee5d-5b7b-459e-b11b-f567ed27f28a

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/accessDenied.jsp/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/1cdaee5d-5b7b-459e-b11b-f567ed27f28a

Date info (Creation)
2019-01-14T00:10:45
Date info (Revision)
2019-01-14T00:10:45

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
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W


Keywords

EFTF Exploring For The Future HVC_144618 borehole borehole logging energy exploration geology groundwater mineral exploration stratigraphy
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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