Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2005

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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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2005-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/63679

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

McKay, W.J.

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Author

McKay, A.D.

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Author

Miezitis, Y.

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Author

Porritt, K.R.

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Author

Sait, R.

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Author

Huleatt, M.B.

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Author

Ratajkoski, M.

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Author

Lambert, I.B.

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ISBN

1327-1466

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

MNHD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • GA Publication

  • Report

Theme

  • commodities

Theme

  • mineral deposits

Theme

  • mineral exploration

Theme

  • resource assessment

Keywords

  • AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

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

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
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Related Product

Australian Atlas of Mineral Resources, Mines, and Processing Centres

OnLine resource

Download the file (pdf)

Download the file (pdf)

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

Unknown

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

GA Publication

Description

Source data not available.

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/a05f7892-f007-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Non geographic dataset
Name

nonGeographicDataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/63679

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-f007-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:23:54
Date info (Creation)
2005-07-27T00:00:00

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

 
 

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Keywords

commodities mineral deposits mineral exploration resource assessment

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