The meteorite collection contains representative material from over 150 Australian and overseas meteorites, with the focus mainly on those that have been found in South Australia. The collection includes pieces from significant international meteorites, such as the Indian Shergotty and Egyptian Nakhla falls, since determined to have originated from Mars. The data includes the locality and date of finds, weight and other descriptive information, and information about their acquisition. The South Australian Museum manages this dataset using the KE EMu collection management system. The full dataset is published on data.sa.gov.au as a .csv file.

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.

The National Geochemical Survey of Australia (NGSA) is Australia’s only internally consistent, continental-scale geochemical atlas and dataset. The present dataset contains additional mineralogical data obtained on NGSA samples selected from the Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian (DCD) region of southeastern Australia for the first partial data release of the Heavy Mineral Map of Australia (HMMA) project. The HMMA, a collaborative project between Geoscience Australia and Curtin University underpinned by a pilot project establishing its feasibility, is part of the Australian Government-funded Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program. The selected 223 NGSA sediment samples fall within the DCD polygon plus an approximately one-degree buffer. The samples were taken on average from 60 to 80 cm depth in floodplain landforms, dried and sieved to a 75-430 µm grainsize fraction, and the contained heavy minerals (HMs; i.e., those with a specific gravity >2.9 g/cm3) were separated by dense fluids and mounted on cylindrical epoxy mounts. After polishing and carbon-coating, the mounts were subjected to automated mineralogical analysis on a TESCAN® Integrated Mineral Analyzer (TIMA). Using scanning electron microscopy and backscatter electron imaging integrated with energy dispersive X-ray analysis, the TIMA identified over 140 different HMs in the DCD area. The dataset, consisting of over 29 million individual mineral grains identified, was quality controlled and validated by an expert team. The data released here can be visualised, explored and downloaded using an online, bespoke mineral network analysis tool (MNA) built on a cloud-based platform. Accompanying this report are a data file of TIMA results and a mineralogy vocabulary file. When completed in 2023, it is hoped the HMMA project will positively impact mineral exploration and prospectivity modelling around Australia, as well as have other applications in earth and environmental sciences.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/mr002971 The Stanthorpe series map was compiled in 2018 at 1:100 000 as part of the Mineral Occurrence 1:100 000 Compilation series to provide an interpretation of known mineral occurrence information. The map product is available to all government agencies, industry and the public for reference and is located within the Stanthorpe (9240) 1:100 000 map area.

Location of all current and historic mineral tenements issued under the Mining Act, 1971. Available format: ESRI Shape, MAPINFO Tab, Google Earth KMZ, WMS and WFS Download Instructions: From SARIG http://map.sarig.sa.gov.au/Shortcut/MineralTenements select 'Active Layers' and click the download icon.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/mr002734 The Bowen series map was compiled in 2018 at 1:100 000 as part of the Mineral Occurrence 1:100 000 Compilation series to provide an interpretation of known mineral occurrence information. The map product is available to all government agencies, industry and the public for reference and is located within the Bowen (8557) 1:100 000 map area.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/ds000004 The Mineral Occurrence database MINOCC contains all digital data for mines and mineral occurrences extracted from the MERLIN system held by the Department of Natural Resources and Mines. The data contains a subset referred to as the Queensland Major Minerals data QMIN which contains all data on small, medium, large and giant mines and resources, including their historic and current production and resource data. The MINOCC database has various ‘view’, ‘report’ and query buttons in its start-up form with predefined queries to interrogate its data. Support documents for mineral occurrence mapping references and history can be found in the ‘user_information directory.

Legacy product - no abstract available

Legacy product - no abstract available

Legacy product - no abstract available