Product catalogue
Australian Mineral and Mining Processing Plants dataset - April 2026
<p>The Australian Mineral and Mining Processing Plants dataset contains the location and descriptive attributes of facilities that process mined materials into usable products, as of April 2026. Data was compiled by Geoscience Australia and its predecessor organisations. Location, plant type, processing types, processed commodities, and processing output are provided for each plant, where known.</p><p>The Australian Mineral and Mining Processing Plants dataset is a subset of the larger OZMIN Database.</p><p>Data is available via the Geoscience Australia Portal ( https://portal.ga.gov.au/), within the 'Mines, Mineral Occurrences, Mineral Deposits, Mineral Resources and Mineral Potential' layer category.</p>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2026-04-29T10:00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-05-11T07:15:35.675Z
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/151084
Identifier
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Kucka, C.
Internal Contact Author Stuart, C.
Internal Contact Author Pheeney, J.
MEG Internal Contact Author Colclough, H.
Internal Contact Author Sait, R.
External Contact
- Purpose
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Provide government, industry and the community with consistent and transparent access to processing plants data held in Geoscience Australia databases.
- Status
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Stuart, C.
Internal Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- Keywords
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mining and processing
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- Keywords
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Australia
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- Keywords
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national dataset
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Resource geoscience
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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
- Addressee
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details User Any
- Use constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2026
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Was derived from
- Title
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Australian Mineral and Mining Processing Plants database
- Citation identifier
- 151083
- Citation identifier
- 929864de-d0ac-4e12-b3ba-9bbd184ded5b
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- OnLine resource
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Download the dataset (csv) [67.9 KB]
Download the dataset (csv) [67.9 KB]
- OnLine resource
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Download the data dictionary (csv) [1.9 KB]
Download the data dictionary (csv) [1.9 KB]
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
Resource lineage
- Statement
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<div>Processing plants data are compiled by Geoscience Australia and released through data publication on eCat and the storage of metadata within GA's Oracle database.</div>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/GDA94 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 4283)
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/c4ea24b9-5dda-439d-9645-c229b8910fbe
- 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 Point of contact Stuart, C.
Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/151084
- Metadata linkage
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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c4ea24b9-5dda-439d-9645-c229b8910fbe
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-06-15T02:58:34.893Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-05-11T23:55:09.435Z
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-04-29T06:43:47.391Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-06-15T02:59:12.506Z
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