Critical Minerals in Ores - geochemistry database

This database contains geochemical analyses of over 7000 samples collected from or near mineral deposits from 60 countries, compiled by the Critical Minerals Mapping Initiative (CMMI), a collaboration between Geoscience Australia (GA), the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Data was compiled from a number of publicly-available sources, including federal and provincial government mineral deposit and geochemistry databases, and the ore samples normalised to average crustal abundance (OSNACA) database compiled by the Centre for Exploration Targeting at the University of Western Australia. Geochemical data cover the majority of the periodic table, with metadata on analytical methods and detection limits. Where available, sample descriptions include lithology, mineralogy, and host stratigraphic units. Mineral deposits are classified according to the CMMI mineral deposit classification scheme (Hofstra et al., 2021). Location information includes deposit or prospect name, and sampling location (i.e., mine, field site, or borehole collar). This dataset will be updated periodically as more data become available.


Geoscience Australia: D Champion, O Raymond, D Huston, M Sexton, E Bastrakov, S van der Wielen, G Butcher, S Hawkins, J Lane, K Czarnota, I Schroder, S McAlpine, A Britt

Geological Survey of Canada: K Lauzière, C Lawley, M Gadd, J-L Pilote, A Haji Egeh, F Létourneau

United States Geological Survey: M Granitto, A Hofstra, D Kreiner, P Emsbo, K Kelley, B Wang, G Case, G Graham

Geological Survey of Queensland: V Lisitsin

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2021-06-30
Date (Revision)
2021-06-28T05:28:03
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145496

Identifier

Codespace

Digital Obejct Identifier

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Champion, D.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Raymond, O.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Huston, D.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

VanDerWielen, S.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Sexton, M.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Bastrakov, E.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Schroder, I.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Butcher, G.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Hawkins, S.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Lane, J.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

McAlpine, S.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Czarnota, K.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Britt, A.

 MEG Internal Contact
Author

Granitto, M.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Hofstra, A.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Kreiner, D.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Emsbo, P.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Kelley, K.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Wang, B.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Case, G.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Graham, G.

 United States Geological Survey External Contact
Author

Lauzière, K.

 Geological Survey of Canada External Contact
Author

Lawley, C.

 Geological Survey of Canada External Contact
Author

Gadd, M.

 Geological Survey of Canada External Contact
Author

Pilote, J-L.

 Geological Survey of Canada External Contact
Author

Létourneau, F.

 Geological Survey of Canada External Contact
Author

Lisitsin, V.

 Geological Survey of Queensland External Contact
Author

Haji Egeh, A.

 Geological Survey of Canada External Contact
Purpose

Although designed to document the concentrations of critical minerals for a range of mineral deposits and deposit types, the dataset also has a range of other potential uses, including establishing the full geochemical characteristics of deposit types for mineral exploration, geochemical classification of deposits, establishing potential environmental hazards and ore processing. The current limitation of the dataset for the data mining purposes and for relating geochemical features to particular deposit environments, groups and types are the existing gaps in the open and compiled data.

Status
On going
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Hawkins, S.

 MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

 External Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
2020-11-01
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • GEOLOGY

  • GEOCHEMISTRY

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Feature type

  • mineral deposit

Theme

  • critical minerals

Theme

  • ores

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

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

Critical Minerals in Ores WMS

Citation identifier
145525

Citation identifier
c5bd89f4-5f98-4221-b3c7-76f3a3781edc

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/145525

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Critical Minerals in Ores WFS

Citation identifier
145527

Citation identifier
ae697115-f0bd-49f4-94d0-17c35059a5dd

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/145527

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

Critical Minerals in Ores WFS

Web Feature Service for the Critical Minerals in Ores Dataset

Distribution format

  • OGC WFS

OnLine resource

Critical Minerals in Ores WMS

Web Map Service for the Critical Minerals in Ores Dataset

Distribution format

  • OGC WMS

OnLine resource

Download dataset (csv) [14 MB]

Download dataset (csv) [14 MB]

Distribution format

  • csv

OnLine resource

Link to CMMI portal

Link to CMMI portal

Distribution format

Resource lineage

Statement

The data is sourced from multiple databases maintained by Geoscience Australia (OZMIN, GEOCHEM), Geological Survey of Canada and provincial Canadians geological surveys, US Geological Survey (MRDS and others), Geological Survey of Queensland, and Curtin University (OSNACA). The data has been collated into a central database maintained by Geoscience Australia, standardised, QA checked, and is delivered as an OGC web service using Geoserver.

Reference System Information

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

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

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

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

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/3c876198-5f78-4f6a-836e-da7f22c3333e

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

Hawkins, S.

 MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

Critical Minerals - Mineral Deposit Geochemistry database

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/145496

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3c876198-5f78-4f6a-836e-da7f22c3333e

Date info (Creation)
2021-06-16T07:20:45
Date info (Revision)
2021-06-16T07:20:45

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
S
E
W


Keywords

critical minerals mineral deposit ores
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES GEOCHEMISTRY GEOLOGY

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