Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2002

In 2001, Australia's economic demonstrated resources (EDR) of bauxite, copper, gold, lead,

magnesite, ilmenite, zircon, nickel, phosphate, PGM, tantalum, silver, vanadium and zinc

increased, while those of black coal, diamonds, iron ore, lithium, manganese ore and uranium

decreased. EDR of brown coal was maintained at levels similar to those reported in 2000. The

reductions in EDR were due mainly to ongoing high levels of production; with low commodity

prices a subsidiary factor.


EDR of gold, nickel and mineral sands reached record levels. Gold EDR rose by 4% and was

over 80% of total demonstrated resources, this increase in resources continuing the established

long-term growth trend for gold. In recent years that trend has continued despite falling

exploration expenditure reflecting an increasing trend to concentrate exploration efforts in

brownfields regions in response to the sustained period of depressed gold price.


Australia, continues to rank as one of the world's leading mineral resource nations. It has the

world's largest EDR of lead, mineral sands, nickel, silver, tantalum, uranium and zinc. In

addition, its EDR is in the top six worldwide for bauxite, black coal, brown coal, cobalt, copper,

gold, iron ore, lithium, manganese ore, rare earth oxides and gem/near gem diamond.


Mineral exploration expenditure rose by 1% to $683.3 million in 2000-01, which was the first

increase in annual exploration spending since 1996-97. However spending for calendar year

2001, based on the sum of ABS four-quarter figures, was down by $12 million to $664.4 million.


Production of many mineral commodities again reached record levels in 2000-01, and overall

mine production is projected by ABARE to rise in the five years to 2006-07 with the exception

of gold which they forecast will fall by 6%. ABARE have projected a very high growth of some

60% for mine production of nickel in this period. Increases are also forecast for mine

production of coal (+17%), copper (4%), lead (3%), zinc (12%), bauxite (17%) and iron ore (19%).

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2002-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/41116

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

McKay, W.J.

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ISBN

1327-1466

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

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

Keywords

  • GA Publication

  • Report

Theme

  • resource assessment

Theme

  • commodities

Theme

  • mineral deposits

Theme

  • mineral exploration

Keywords

  • AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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English
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Distribution Information

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

Related Product

Australian Atlas of Mineral Resources, Mines, and Processing Centres

OnLine resource

Download the file (pdf)

Download the file (pdf)

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  • pdf

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Unknown

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Non geographic dataset
Other

GA Publication

Description

Source data not available.

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

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urn:uuid/a05f7892-b771-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Type of resource

Resource scope
Non geographic dataset
Name

nonGeographicDataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/41116

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-b771-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:10:30
Date info (Creation)
2002-09-09T00:00:00

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

 
 

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Keywords

commodities mineral deposits mineral exploration resource assessment

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