Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2016

Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual national assessment that takes a long-term view of Australian mineral resources likely to be available for mining. The assessment also includes evaluations of long-term trends in mineral resources, world rankings, summaries of significant exploration results and brief reviews of mining industry developments.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-11-14T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2016-12-20T12:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/100121

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/1327-1466.2016

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Co-author

Britt, A.F.

 1
Co-author

Summerfield, D.

 2
Co-author

Senior, A.B.

 3
Co-author

Roberts, D.

 4
Co-author

Kay, P.

 5
Co-author

Hitchman, A.

 6
Co-author

Champion, D.C.

 7
Co-author

Huston, D.

 8
Co-author

Sexton, M.

 11
Co-author

Schofield, A.

 12
Co-author

Simpson, R.

 9
Co-author

Smith, M.L.

 10
Name

Australia's Identified Mineral Resources (AIMR)

Issue identification

2016

Purpose

An annual national assessment that provides a long-term view of Australia’s mineral resources, including inventories, trends, world rankings and the distribution of resources geographically and at operating mines and deposits.


The report supports government policy and planning decisions for the minerals sector, including the sustainable development of Australia's mineral resources.

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

 Internal Contact
Point of contact

Britt, A.

 MEG Internal Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Temporal element

Time period
2015-01 2015-12

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

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

Function
Offline access
Keywords

  • mineral resources, mineral commodities, minerals inventory, national inventory, reserves, resources, mining, production, mineral exploration, resource trends, mineral exports, mineral value

  • AIMR_151352

  • mineral commodity

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

  • Geology

  • Economics

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
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017

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
Larger work citation
Title

Australia's Identified Mineral Resources (AIMR) Collection

Website

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Download file (pdf)

Download file (pdf)

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

Prior to 1997, AIMR resources were as at 31 December of the year stated in the title

From 1997, AIMR resources were as at 31 December of the year prior to that stated in the title.

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

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

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e893e4ff-e366-4132-867e-e041044a9041

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Britt, A.F.

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA Report

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/100121

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e893e4ff-e366-4132-867e-e041044a9041

Date info (Creation)
2026-09-28T04:35:46.807Z
Date info (Creation)
2016-04-29T10:42:03
Date info (Revision)
2026-09-28T05:18:52.703Z

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

AIMR_151352 mineral commodity mineral resources, mineral commodities, minerals inventory, national inventory, reserves, resources, mining, production, mineral exploration, resource trends, mineral exports, mineral value
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences Economics Geology

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