From Geoscience Australia
JSON format icon JSON RDF format icon RDF ISO19115-3 XML

New products from Geoscience Australia to assist nickel and platinum explorers: 2007

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

JSON format icon JSON RDF format icon RDF ISO19115-3 XML

The Australian nickel industry in 2007 is experiencing a `boom phase' with spiralling metal prices to record levels of US$54,200 per tonne (16th of May 2007) surpassing the previous highest price of $US23,900/t reached in 1988. As a consequence exploration expenditures and activities related to mafic-ultramafic rocks are near all-time highs. To assist explorers, Geoscience Australia (GA) has compiled a fact sheet (2007) of products produced by GA related to those commodities (nickel, copper, cobalt, chromium, platinum-group elements, titanium, vanadium) associated with Precambrian mafic-ultramafic rocks in Australia. These products include national review publications (e.g., Nickel sulphide deposits in Australia), reports of metallogenic province studies (Kimberleys, Pilbara, Arunta, Gawler), and various maps, PowerPoint presentations, and digital datasets. Most products can be downloaded free through the www links provided on the fact sheet.

Files and APIs

Tags

Additional Info

Field Value
Title New products from Geoscience Australia to assist nickel and platinum explorers: 2007
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/0e46e48c-d800-4bc2-bdd8-9f0f66d3c552
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        110.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -10.0
      ],
      [
        110.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "New products from Geoscience Australia to assist nickel and platinum explorers: 2007". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/new-products-from-geoscience-australia-to-assist-nickel-and-platinum-explorers-2007