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Department of Regional New South Wales
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NSW Mineral Occurrences

Locations of over 31,000 types of minerals throughout NSW, including coal, gas, gemstones and construction materials. This spatial dataset is a derivative product of the New South Wales Mineral Occurence Database (also known as New South Wales MetIndEx). It records over 31,000 known mineral occurrences throughout NSW. These records have been compiled from resource and production data compiled from both historic and current mining operations records held by the Geological Survey of NSW. Data records start from a state-wide Metallogenic Mapping program developed by the Survey in the late 1960s and are continuously improved via mandatory reporting. The alternative name MetIndEx refers to the METallics, INDustrial minerals and Exploration discoveries database of economic mineral deposits and occurrences in New South Wales. The data has been migrated over various databases from Microsoft Access to Oracle and SQL Server. The location data has also had multiple datum changes since the original database was compiled. The data is being continuously improved and refined by the custodians on an irregular basis. This data is part of the New South Wales Geoscientific Data Warehouse (NSW GDW) series.

Data and Resources

Metadata Summary What is metadata?

Field Value
Language English
Edition 1
Purpose Geological information
Frequency of change Daily
Keywords GEOSCIENCES-Geology,GEOSCIENCES-Geochemistry,INDUSTRY-Mining
Field of Research (optional) Geology
Metadata Date 2016-06-22
Date of Asset Creation 1998-09-15
Date of Asset Publication 2011-02-28
Date of Next Update 2019-04-24
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 100000
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Point
Object count
Geospatial Topic Environment
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 1961-11-11
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution Department of Regional New South Wales asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and Department of Regional New South Wales 2011"