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Mineral Occurrences Discovery and Exploration Dataset

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The study utilised Geoscience Australia’s vast data collection of mineral occurrences to identify the range of historical discoveries within the Officer-Musgrave, Darling-Curnamona - Delameian and Barkly - Isa - Georgetown Deep Dive areas. A literature review shed light on exploration discovery methods, commodity grades, exploration histories and deposit types. Many critical mineral occurrences were overlooked or ignored in the past, as the commodity discovered was not of interest or value at the time, or grades were regarded as sub-economic. However, with modern methods of mining, ore treatment techniques and increased demand, reassessment could now provide new opportunities.

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Title Mineral Occurrences Discovery and Exploration Dataset
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/59f027e2-24a6-4548-94c1-0779996ea602
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 01/06/2021 - 30/06/2022
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Mineral Occurrences Discovery and Exploration Dataset". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/mineral-occurrences-discovery-and-exploration-dataset