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Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2005

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Geoscience Australia provides information on the nation's future capacity to produce mineral resources. Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual nation-wide assessment of Australia's ore reserves and mineral resources. All major and a number of minor mineral commodities mined in Australia are assessed. Australia's economic demonstrated resources (EDR) of the following mineral commodities increased during 2004 - bauxite, black coal, copper, gold, iron ore, ilmenite, lead, manganese, rare earth elements, tantalum, tin, uranium and zinc. EDR of cobalt, diamonds (both gem and industrial), lithium, phosphate, rutile, silver, tungsten and zircon decreased during the year. EDR for brown coal, magnesite, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, platinum group metals, shale oil, and vanadium remained at levels similar to those reported in 2003. Increases in EDR were due to on-going drilling and evaluation of known deposits resulting in the transfer (re-assessment) of resources from inferred or sub-economic categories into EDR, and discoveries of new deposits or extensions of known deposits. Newly delineated resources of 1 256 t added to gold's total national inventory, with growth in all east coast mainland states and South Australia. A few mining companies re-estimated ore reserves and mineral resources more conservatively for some commodities to comply with the requirements of the Australasian Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code).

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Title Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2005
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/11ca68de-f252-4fc1-9bdf-32ec2e31c928
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2005". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/australias-identified-mineral-resources-2005