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Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2006

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Australian mineral exploration spending in 2005-06 rose by 20.6% to a record $1240.7 million, 36.9% of which was spent on the search for new deposits. Western Australia dominated with 47.6% of Australian mineral exploration spending while South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland had record expenditure. Tasmanian spending rose by 172%. Gold remained the main target, but its share of spending was eroded by growth in nickel, copper, iron ore, coal and uranium exploration. Exploration results were announced for a wide range of commodities from across the country including: Mineral sands (Gullivers, South Australia, and Cooljarloo North, Western Australia) Nickel (Saxon, Tasmania) Gold-copper (Tekapo, Northern Territory) Gold (Tandarra, Victoria, and Tropicana, Western Australia) Base metals (Cuttaburra, New South Wales) Copper (Rocklands, Queensland)

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Title Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2006
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/b1094449-07f4-41b5-b371-959b01e0b41e
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australian Mineral Exploration - A Review of Exploration for the Year 2006". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australian-mineral-exploration-a-review-of-exploration-for-the-year-2006