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Cooper Basin region: Other resource potential data guide

Publicly available geological data in the Cooper Basin region are compiled to produce statements of existing knowledge for natural hydrogen, hydrogen storage, coal and mineral occurrences. This data guide also contains assessment of the potential for carbon dioxide (CO2) geological storage and minerals in the basin region.

Geochemical analysis of gas samples from petroleum in the basin shows various concentrations of natural hydrogen. However, the generation mechanism of the observed natural hydrogen concentration is still unknown.

The mineral occurrences are all found in the overlying basins and are small and of little economic significance. The Cooper Basin has some potential for base metal and uranium deposits due to somewhat suitable formation conditions, but the depth of the basin makes exploration and mining difficult and expensive. This also applies to coal, where there are no identified occurrences or resources in the Cooper Basin. However, if some were identified, the depth of the basin would probably make extraction uneconomic, with the potential exception of coal seam gas extraction.

CO2 geological storage assessment in the overlying Eromanga Basin suggests that most areas over the Cooper Basin (except over the Weena Trough in the south-west) are prospective for geological storage CO2.

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Date (Creation)
2023-07-01T09:00:00
Date (Publication)
2023-09-04T00:30:04
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147569

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147569

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Author

Trusted Environmental and Geological Information Program

External Contact
Purpose

Delivery of trusted baseline data and information for geological basins prospective for energy, carbon capture and storage, groundwater and minerals as part of the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information program (TEGI).

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Woods, M.

MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

External Contact
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

Accuracy of the spatial data included in this package is dependant on the source datasets used to create it. Please refer to the individual metadata statements contained in this package for more information.

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

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

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords
  • Australia

Keywords
  • Cooper Basin

Keywords
  • Undiscovered resources

Keywords
  • Minerals

Keywords
  • Coal

Keywords
  • Hydrocarbons

Keywords
  • CCS

Keywords
  • Hydrogen

Keywords
  • TEGI

Keywords
  • Trusted environmental and geological information

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/

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License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

(c) Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2022

Resource 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

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources MapServer

Citation identifier
149571

Citation identifier
569b0729-eeeb-42b5-b434-3cf6627212e7

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/149571

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Associated resource

Association Type
Operated on by
Title

Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources WMS

Citation identifier
149572

Citation identifier
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Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/149572

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 facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the Report (zip) [1.41 MB]

Download the Report (zip) [1.41 MB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Download the ESRI File Geodatabase (zip) [44 KB]

Download the ESRI File Geodatabase (zip) [44 KB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Download the Shapefiles (zip) [27 KB]

Download the Shapefiles (zip) [27 KB]

Distribution format
  • zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources MapServer

Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources MapServer

Distribution format
  • ESRI:ArcGIS:MapServer

OnLine resource

Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources WMS

Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources WMS

Distribution format
  • OGC:WMS

Resource lineage

Statement

This package has been developed as part of the the Trusted Environmental and Geological Information program (TEGI), and is providing better and more streamlined access to information and data for geological basins prospective for energy, carbon capture and storage, groundwater and minerals.

The program has identified and collated trusted baseline data and information for four prospective basin regions and supplement it with new geological and environmental assessments. This information will provide Australian governments, industry and communities with the highest-quality trusted science available to make faster, clearer decisions and provide better outcomes for the environment and water resources.

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
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Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Owner

Woods, M

Geoscience Australia Internal Contact
Point of contact

Woods, M.

MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

Report

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/147569

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5167d912-6784-4371-9938-3931e84ca6f1

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/b3021f0d-52b6-4ba4-ac95-06d8bb40b026

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-08T01:55:29
Date info (Revision)
2019-04-08T01:55:29

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

Australia CCS Coal Cooper Basin Hydrocarbons Hydrogen Minerals TEGI Trusted environmental and geological information Undiscovered resources
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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