Mining Lease polygons and production licence polygons for all mineral categories across Tasmania, with tenement information derived from the TIGER system; administered by Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT), Department of State Growth. Mining Lease polygons delineate areas in which lease holders are permitted to conduct mining operations. Mining Leases may be granted over both Crown and private land, so long as that land falls under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995. Mining operations include: obtaining and treating minerals, storing and containing minerals or waste material generated on a lease or another area, and activities associated with mining. Mining also includes production activities in relation to a category 4 mineral or a category 6 mineral.

Non-current Exploration Licence polygons across Tasmania, with tenement information derived from the Tasmanian Information on Geoscience and Exploration Resources (TIGER) system; administered by Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT), Department of State Growth. Non-current licences includes licences which were registered but never granted (e.g. application was withdrawn, lapsed or refused) as well as licences that were granted and later ceased to be current (expired, surrendered, renewal refused etc.). In cases where a partial surrender was approved during the term of the exploration licence, only the final area is represented in this dataset. Exploration licence polygons delineate areas in which licence holders are permitted to explore for the listed categories of minerals. Exploration licences may be granted over both Crown and private land, so long as that land falls under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995. Mineral exploration activities may include: geological, geophysical and geochemical surveys, drilling, and taking samples of rock, soil, water or other substances for analysis. Mining is not an exploration activity and cannot occur on an exploration licence.

A composite map layer that displays the land tenure of Tasmania classified as to whether or not prospecting is allow, this is overlaid and over-ridden by a subset of the areas unavailable under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995. The layer also shows all current mineral tenements, and declared fossicking areas.

Areas unavailable for mineral exploration or mining across Tasmania. Polygons delineate areas in which exploration licence and mining lease holders are not permitted to explore for or extract minerals or atomic substances. Areas include those areas defined as unavailable under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 and areas which have been administratively excluded by Mineral Resources Tasmania.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/mr009482 The HISTORICAL MINING LEASE CAPTURE Map was published in 2001 at 1:2 500 000 as part of the MINES PUBLICATION series to administer permit and permit related spatial information. The map was maintained internally as a provisional office chart. The map product is available to all government agencies, industry and the public for reference. Title and Image reference number is HISTORICAL MINING LEASE CAPTURE_9801. (MR9801) Historical mining lease centroid capture project as at 2001.

Mineral occurrences, including operating and abandoned mines, located in Tasmania, with summary mineral occurrence data, derived from the Mineral Occurrence Database, which is a component of the Tasmanian Information on Geoscience and Exploration Resources (TIGER) system; administered by Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT). Mineral occurrences include operating and abandoned mines, prospects, mapped occurrences and mineral fields or mineralised areas. Mineral occurrences are shown subdivided by commodity type, which largely corresponds to the mineral categories defined in the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995; Fuel Minerals, including geothermal (Categories 2, 4 and 6), Construction Minerals (Category 3), Industrial minerals (Category 5) and metallic minerals (Category 1). Alluvial, placer and man-made (tailings dam) occurrences are shown separately (commodities are mineral Categories 1 and 5) and occurrences (generally abandoned mine workings) where there are no records of the commodity of interest, are shown as unknown. The summary Mineral Occurrence data includes: the Mineral occurrence name (note that an occurrence may have multiple names or aliases), the commodity type (as defined above), the nature of the occurrence (e.g., mine or prospect, mineralised area), the commodity or commodities present, the geological unit that hosts the occurrence and the positional accuracy of the record. A Details field provides a link to a Mineral Occurrence Details page where further information, including references and public domain resource figures, may be available.

Geological lines (contacts, faults, linears), geological rock units, and structure data derived from 1:50,000 and 1:63,360 Digital Geological Atlas printed map series and 1:25,000 digital geology data where available. Geological units and boundaries have been generalised and compiled for 1:250,000 scale. The digital data is available as a seamless state wide coverage and is used to produce the Digital Geological Atlas 1:250,000 Scale map series.