Minerals
Geoscience Australia provides pre-competitive geoscience information that supports and facilitates onshore energy and mineral exploration in Australia. This is achieved through integrated programs of data gathering and assessment, conducted at the national and regional scale. We undertake activities of national strategic importance such as the five-year Onshore Energy Security Program which finished in mid 2011. We also coordinate promotional events for domestic and international mineral exploration and advise the Australian Government on mineral resources, mining and land use. This work is integral to decisions regarding multiple and sequential land use and provides an understanding of the nation's known mineral endowment, the sustainable development of mineral resources and levels of exploration activity.
Geoscience Australia has released Towards Future Energy Discovery summarising the work completed under its Energy Security Program. It is the culmination of five years of offshore and onshore data acquisition and regional studies to encourage further exploration for energy resources. This catalogue of achievements also identifies new opportunities and potential for energy and mineral discovery in under-explored regions.
Information on mineral exploration in Australia.
Details of the economics and reporting of Australia's mineral resources including the annual publication Australia's Identified Mineral Resources.
Information on disciplines and techniques including geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics and spectral geology.
Links to exploration legislation and tenements.
Links to Minerals Industry Associations, State Geological Surveys and Government Councils.
Minerals - Projects
Information on Geoscience Australia's minerals projects, current and concluded.
Topic contact: minerals@ga.gov.au Last updated: June 16, 2011
