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Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation
Herein we present the results of a national compilation of mineral deposits (available in Excel or CSV format) for Australia. The deposits were selected as they have substantial endowment (i.e. pre-mining mineral resource) and/or detailed geological information is available. For each deposit (or, in some cases, district) the dataset includes information on:
1. Name (including synonyms), location and GA identifying numbers;
2. Tectonic province that hosts the deposit;
3. Type(s) and age(s) of mineralising events that produced/affected the deposit (including metadata on ages);
4. The metal/mineral endowment of the deposit;
5. Host rocks to the deposit;
6. Spatially and/or temporally associated magmatic rocks;
7. Spatially and temporally associated alteration assemblages (mostly proximal, but, in some cases, regional assemblages);
8. The Fe-S-O minerals present in the deposit and relative abundances where known;
9. Sulfate minerals present;
10. Peak metamorphic grade;
11. Data sources; and
12. Comments.
This document presents more detailed descriptions of the metadata presented in the compilation. The dataset is presented in Appendix A. Appendix B presents a national classification of geological provinces based mostly on existing State survey classifications; Appendix C presents a deposit classification based on the classification proposed by Hofstra et al. (2021); and Appendix D presents mineral abbreviations used in the dataset.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-08-11
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-08-31T03:45:09
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145716
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2021.020
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Huston, D.
MEG Internal Contact Author Doublier, M.
MEG Internal Contact Author Downes, P.M.
External Contact
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Record
- Purpose
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This report provides metadata on data provided in accompanying spreadsheets. The data were compiled in 2020-2021 from internal and external references
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Huston, D.
MEG Internal Contact Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
External Contact
- Spatial representation type
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
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1000 m
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2020-02-03 2021-08-11
Extent
))
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Website
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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EARTH SCIENCES
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Ore Deposit Petrology
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Geochronology
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Australia
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- Theme
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Mineral deposits
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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
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- 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 Record (pdf) [1.2 MB]
Download the Record (pdf) [1.2 MB]
- Distribution format
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pdf
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- OnLine resource
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Download Appendix A (xlsx) [644 KB]
Download Appendix A (xlsx) [644 KB]
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xlsx
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- OnLine resource
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Download Appendix B (xlsx) [15 KB]
Download Appendix B (xlsx) [15 KB]
- Distribution format
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xlsx
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- OnLine resource
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Download Appendix C (xlsx) [22 KB]
Download Appendix C (xlsx) [22 KB]
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xlsx
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- OnLine resource
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Download Appendix D (pdf) [16 KB]
Download Appendix D (pdf) [16 KB]
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xlsx
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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This report provides metadata on data provided in accompanying spreadsheets. The data were compiled in 2020-2021 from internal and external references
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/5cd6fca8-7a37-4608-abeb-2fbc5fc91f13
- 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 Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Owner Huston, D
Geoscience Australia Internal Contact Point of contact Huston, D.
MEG Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Document
- Name
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GA publication: GA Record
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/145716
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
- Date info (Revision)
- 2019-04-08T01:55:29
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
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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