Burdekin-Fitzroy Interactive Map - Metadata

• Overlays
• Backdrops (Raster/Polygon)

Overlays

• GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 2
• Australian Land Tenure 1993
• GEODATA 9 Second Digital Elevation Model (DEM-9S) Version 2
• QDNR&M 25 metre Digital Elevation Model
• Sub-Basin Areas - Queensland - QLD_BASINSUBAREA_100K
• MINLOC Mineral Localities Database
• OZMIN Mineral Deposits Database
• OZCHEM Database
• Tectonic regions
• 1:100000 Scale Geological Mapping
• Northern Bowen Basin Solid Geology
• 1:1 Million scale Digital Geology
• Bowen Basin Solid Geology (1985)
• Gravity Stations
• Seismic Lines (Company)
• Airborne survey boundaries - Multi-client surveys (FUGRO)
• Airborne survey boundaries - QDNR&M
• Company airborne surveys - Magnetics and radiometrics combined
• Company airborne surveys - Magnetics only
• Company airborne surveys - Radiometrics only
• Company airborne surveys - Electromagnetics
• Water bores
• Stratigraphic bores (Bureau of Mineral Resources)
• Open Cut Mine Sites
• Stratigraphic bores (Queensland Natural Resources and Mines)
• Coal Seam Gas wells
• Petroleum wells
• Mining leases
• Petroleum leases
• Current mineral exploration permits
• ATP exploration titles
• Coal exploration permits

GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 2

Contains a medium scale vector representation of the topography of Australia. The data include the following themes:

• Hydrography - drainage networks including watercourses, lakes, wetlands, bores and offshore features;
• Infrastructure - constructed features to support road, rail and air transportation as well as built-up areas, localities and homesteads.;
• Relief - features depicting the terrain of the earth including 50 metre contours, spot heights, sand dunes, craters and cliffs;
• Vegetation - depicting forested areas, orchards, mangroves, pine plantations and rainforests; and
• Reserved Areas - areas reserved for special purposes including nature conservation reserves, aboriginal reserves, prohibited areas and water supply reserves.

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Australian Land Tenure 1993

The LAND TENURE product is a vector representation of the public, private and Aboriginal lands of Australia. Data are sourced primarily from government gazette notices, cadastral maps and plans. This dataset is the 1993 land tenure dataset of Australia and marine areas at 1:4 700 000 scale.

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GEODATA 9 Second Digital Elevation Model (DEM-9S) Version 2

A gridded DEM computed from topographic information including point elevation data, elevation contours, stream lines and cliff lines. The grid spacing is 9 seconds in longitude and latitude (approximately 250 metres).

Version 2 is based on the ANUDEM 5.0 elevation gridding program developed by the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES) at the Australian National University. Improvements made to this program and the inclusion of several additional continent wide data sources have greatly enhanced the accuracy of the product.

The 9 Second DEM Version 2 has been developed with the objective to maximise usefulness of the product for a wide range of applications. The 9 Second DEM is particularly useful where accurate representations of surface shape and drainage structure are required.

The product can also be used for applications requiring accurate representation of absolute elevation values. The elevation of source data high points (hills or mountains) is well represented in Version 2.

The 1:250 000 source scale of the elevation grid makes the product useful for national, state-wide and regional applications.

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QDNR&M 25 metre Digital Elevation Model

The Digital Elevation Model is at 25m x 25m resolution with hillshade. No additional metadata is currently available. The contour layer was derived from the 25m DEM is displayed at 100m intervals. The colour backdrop is in pseudocolour with histogram equalisation.

For more information please visit the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Sub-Basin Areas - Queensland - QLD_BASINSUBAREA_100K

Polygon coverage captured and stored in ArcInfo, depicting a subdivision of the major drainage basins in Queensland. Its original purpose was to implant some location identifier into the numbering system of bores and gauging stations. For example all bore numbers were prefixed with a four-digit number. The first three were used to locate the bore into a specific major river basin. The forth digit was used to located the bore into a subdivision of that major river basin as shown in the Sub-Basin Areas - Queensland coverage. This coverage is now only used as a means of numbering bores and gauging stations.

The capture scale for this dataset is 1:100 000.

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MINLOC Mineral Localities Database

Compilation of data for the MINLOC database began in 1989 and now contains location data for mineral occurrences in Australia. Location data includes co-ordinates, name of occurrence, and commodity(ies). All data points are referenced. Data available via mapping interfaces on the Geoscience Australia website are updated weekly whilst data available via download are a snapshot at the "Ending Date" of the current database entries. NOTE: The Microsoft ACCESS version is current only to 1999.

For GIS users, as well as the main MINLOC dataset (Mineral_Occurrencesdd) there are several additional datasets. These are individual datasets generated for selected commodities (Gold (Au), copper (Cu), silver (Ag), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), uranium (U), nickel (Ni), tin (Sn), iron (Fe), tantalum (Ta), coal, manganese (Mn), tungsten (W), diamonds, platinum group metals, mineral sands). These are a derivation of the main dataset and comprise the indication of a commodity at each occurrence location.

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OZMIN Mineral Deposits Database

The national mineral deposits dataset covers 60 commodities and more than 1050 of Australia's most significant mineral deposits - current and historic mines and undeveloped deposits. Subsets can also be created based on any attribute in the database (e.g. commodity, geological region, state/territory). More information can be found by using the info tool which will link directly to the Australian Mines Atlas website.

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OZCHEM Database

These data represent whole rock geochemical analyses from the OZCHEM Database. Each analysis includes a geographic location and a geological description, which includes the host stratigraphic unit, where known, and the lithology. The compilation of OZCHEM database was commenced in 1988 and most samples have been collected by Geoscience Australia employees. These data are a snapshot at the "Ending Date" of the current database entries and are also a subset of the full database managed by GA which includes data from Papua New Guinea, Antarctica, Solomon Islands and New Zealand.

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Tectonic regions

This theme depicts the tectonic/structural unit classification of the geology of Queensland. Geological unit attributes include unit name and unit rank (Super Province, Province, Subprovince, Structural Unit). This data set can be supplemented with a map showing the geological units of Queensland (1975) as represented at a scale of 2 500 000. There is also a Publication No 383 Queensland Geology (1982). The data set is still under development.

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1:100 000 Scale Geological Mapping

This dataset has been digitised from compilation sheets or existing maps. Attributed polygon and linework is available as a apart of the GEOLDATA 1:100 000 digital geology series.

These data are available for purchase from the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines in ArcInfo export format.

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Northern Bowen Basin Solid Geology

The northern Bowen Basin Project is collaborative research project between the CSIRO Exploration and Mining and the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines (QDNR&M). The DNRM acquired 30 000 line km of airborne magnetics and radiometrics in 2002 to add to existing surveys further east. The data was flown at 400m line-spacing and 80m flying height, and covers the structurally complex northern Bowen Basin. The chief investigators for this project were Renate Sliwa (CSIRO Exploration & Mining) and Jon Draper (QDNR&M). The interpretation shapefiles can be downloaded from the CSIRO website Glass Earth.

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1:1 Million Scale Digital Geology

The digital data set represents the surface geological units for South Queensland as attributed polygons and lines. The data set was compiled from a variety of regional datasets for an area approximately coincident with 18.5 degrees S to 29.0 degrees S and 138.0 degrees E to 153.5 degrees E. The data is intended for use at 1:1M scale and has a spatial accuracy of approximately 1 km.

In south Queensland, Cainozoic units comprise more than half the surface geology with sand plain (Czs ? sand plain and colluvium), sand plain with dunes (Qd) and alluvium (Qa ? stream channel and flood plain alluvium) being the major components. Jurassic to Cretaceous formations of the Eromanga and Surat Basins are the next most abundant units exposed. They extend from the southeast, west and northwest across most of the area of the map. These basins unconformably overlie the Permian to Triassic Galilee and Bowen Basins located in the north east of the area. Tectonically dismembered and juxtaposed components of the Devonian to Triassic, New England Fold Belt comprise a north-northwest-trending, 250 km wide, coastal strip, from the NSW border in the south, to Bowen in the north. The sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the New England Fold Belt have been extensively intruded by Carboniferous to Triassic granite. Rocks of Cambrian to Ordovician age are exposed in the relatively small Anakie Inlier to the west of the Bowen Basin in the north east of the area, and on the Charters Towers and Bowen Sheets to the north. Cambrian to Silurian sediments of the Georgina Basin are more extensively exposed in the north west of the map area. Relatively minor extents of Proterozoic rocks occur in the north west of the area on the Mt Whelan Sheet (Arunta Province) and in the north on the Richmond and Hughenden Sheets (Etheridge Province?).

For more information on this coverage, its status and availability, visit the National Geological Maps webpage.

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Bowen Basin Solid Geology (1985)

This map provides an interpreted depiction of the extent of the rock units within the Bowen Basin as they would appear is the cover rocks were stripped away (e.g. soil, basalt and weathered rocks removed). It provides a clearer understanding of the underlying geology. The data are extracted from the Geoscience and Resources Database (GRDB) via standardised queries and mapped as a shapefile in ArcView using the add event theme and convert to shapefile operations. Oracle Data Browser and ArcView Ver 3.2 Department of Mines and Energy, Geological Survey Office.

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Gravity Stations

The data was obtained from the Australian National Gravity Database hosted by Geoscience Australia. These stations are a compilation from government and private surveys.

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Seismic Lines (Company)

Seismic survey profile data may be obtained from Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines as *.tiff image files and SEGY format where available. Most of this data is open file.

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Seismic Lines (BMR)

BMR (Bureau of Mineral Resources) seismic survey data can be obtained from Geoscience Australia. Most of this data is open file and available in a range of formats.

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Airborne survey boundaries - Multi-client surveys (FUGRO)

This polygon shows the clipped boundaries for the Clermont and Charters Towers airborne geophysical surveys flown in 1987 by Fugro Airborne Surveys. These surveys remain the property Fugro Airborne Surveys and are subject to their copyright and confidentiality. The multi-client survey data (Fugro Airborne Surveys) is shown at a quarter of its original resolution under the agreements made for the use of these data.

For further information contact Fugro Airborne Surveys.

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Airborne survey boundaries - QDNR&M

These survey areas have been flown under contract for Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines (QDNR&M). Most are open file and the data may be obtained from QDNR&M on request.

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Company airborne surveys - Magnetics and radiometrics combined

These surveys comprise magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys flown by exploration companies. These data are submitted to the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines under the Mineral Resources Act 1989, and generally remain confidential for a period of 5 years or until expiry of tenure, if sooner.

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Company airborne surveys - Magnetics only

These surveys comprise magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys flown by exploration companies. These data are submitted to the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines under the Mineral Resources Act 1989, and generally remain confidential for a period of 5 years or until expiry of tenure, if sooner.

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Company airborne surveys - Radiometrics only

These surveys comprise magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys flown by exploration companies. These data are submitted to the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines under the Mineral Resources Act 1989, and generally remain confidential for a period of 5 years or until expiry of tenure, if sooner.

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Company airborne surveys - Electromagnetics

These surveys comprise magnetic, radiometric and electromagnetic surveys flown by exploration companies. These data are submitted to the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines under the Mineral Resources Act 1989, and generally remain confidential for a period of 5 years or until expiry of tenure, if sooner.

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Water bores

Groundwater bore data may be purchased from Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Stratigraphic bores (Bureau of Mineral Resources)

Stratigraphic bore information can be obtained from QPED. The Queensland Petroleum Exploration Database (QPED) is a comprehensive database of subsurface geological information on Queensland's sedimentary basins. QPED stores in excess of 3300 petroleum wells and stratigraphic bores. Open file data can be supplied as Microsoft EXCEL files. The price of the database is A$113.52 (including GST).

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Open Cut Mine Sites

This layer shows all of the open cut mine sites from Queensland. Further information on the availability of this information may be obtained from Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Stratigraphic bores (Queensland Natural Resources and Mines)

Stratigraphic bore information can be obtained from QPED. The Queensland Petroleum Exploration Database (QPED) is a comprehensive database of subsurface geological information on Queensland's sedimentary basins. QPED stores in excess of 3300 petroleum wells and stratigraphic bores. Open file data can be supplied as Microsoft EXCEL files. The price of the database is A$113.52 (including GST).

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Coal Seam Gas wells

Coal Seam Gas well information can be obtained from QPED. The Queensland Petroleum Exploration Database (QPED) is a comprehensive database of subsurface geological information on Queensland's sedimentary basins. QPED stores in excess of 3300 petroleum wells and stratigraphic bores. Open file data can be supplied as Microsoft EXCEL files. The price of the database is A$113.52 (including GST).

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Petroleum wells

Petroleum well information can be obtained from QPED. The Queensland Petroleum Exploration Database (QPED) is a comprehensive database of subsurface geological information on Queensland's sedimentary basins. QPED stores in excess of 3300 petroleum wells and stratigraphic bores. Open file data can be supplied as Microsoft EXCEL files. The price of the database is A$113.52 (including GST).

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Mining leases

QSET (Queensland Status of Exploration Titles) is a digital graphics product on compact disc containing data extracted on the first day of each month from the Department's Mineral and Energy Resources, Location and Information Network (MERLIN) Database. It provides spatial and attribute data for Exploration Titles (Mineral, Coal and Petroleum), Petroleum Leases, Restricted Areas and Administrative boundaries.

It is available by annual subscription or as a single purchase from the Department and provides an aid to monitoring exploration activity.

Mining Tenements (Titles and also Mining Tenures) data are also available on demand- as large scale paper plots or digital data extracts.

Detailed searches of the MERLIN database can be undertaken at NR&M (Mines) District Offices for the current status of tenures and administrative information.

For more information please visit the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Petroleum leases

QSET (Queensland Status of Exploration Titles) is a digital graphics product on compact disc containing data extracted on the first day of each month from the Department's Mineral and Energy Resources, Location and Information Network (MERLIN) Database . It provides spatial and attribute data for Exploration Titles (Mineral, Coal and Petroleum), Petroleum Leases, Restricted Areas and Administrative boundaries.

It is available by annual subscription or as a single purchase from the Department and provides an aid to monitoring exploration activity.

Mining Tenements (Titles and also Mining Tenures) data are also available on demand- as large scale paper plots or digital data extracts.

Detailed searches of the MERLIN database can be undertaken at NR&M (Mines) District Offices for the current status of tenures and administrative information.

For more information please visit the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Current mineral exploration permits

QSET (Queensland Status of Exploration Titles) is a digital graphics product on compact disc containing data extracted on the first day of each month from the Department's Mineral and Energy Resources, Location and Information Network (MERLIN) Database . It provides spatial and attribute data for Exploration Titles (Mineral, Coal and Petroleum), Petroleum Leases, Restricted Areas and Administrative boundaries.

It is available by annual subscription or as a single purchase from the Department and provides an aid to monitoring exploration activity.

Mining Tenements (Titles and also Mining Tenures) data are also available on demand- as large scale paper plots or digital data extracts.

Detailed searches of the MERLIN database can be undertaken at NR&M (Mines) District Offices for the current status of tenures and administrative information.

For more information please visit the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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ATP exploration titles

QSET (Queensland Status of Exploration Titles) is a digital graphics product on compact disc containing data extracted on the first day of each month from the Department's Mineral and Energy Resources, Location and Information Network (MERLIN) Database . It provides spatial and attribute data for Exploration Titles (Mineral, Coal and Petroleum), Petroleum Leases, Restricted Areas and Administrative boundaries.

It is available by annual subscription or as a single purchase from the Department and provides an aid to monitoring exploration activity.

Mining Tenements (Titles and also Mining Tenures) data are also available on demand- as large scale paper plots or digital data extracts.

Detailed searches of the MERLIN database can be undertaken at NR&M (Mines) District Offices for the current status of tenures and administrative information.

For more information please visit the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Coal exploration permits

QSET (Queensland Status of Exploration Titles) is a digital graphics product on compact disc containing data extracted on the first day of each month from the Department's Mineral and Energy Resources, Location and Information Network (MERLIN) Database. It provides spatial and attribute data for Exploration Titles (Mineral, Coal and Petroleum), Petroleum Leases, Restricted Areas and Administrative boundaries.

It is available by annual subscription or as a single purchase from the Department and provides an aid to monitoring exploration activity.

Mining Tenements (Titles and also Mining Tenures) data are also available on demand- as large scale paper plots or digital data extracts.

Detailed searches of the MERLIN database can be undertaken at NR&M (Mines) District Offices for the current status of tenures and administrative information.

For more information please visit the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Backdrops (Raster/polygon)

• Landsat 7 mosaic
• Regolith Terrains of Australia
• Land Systems
• Physiographic Regions
• Australian Groundwater Flow Systems - National Land and Water Resources Audit, January 2000
• Burdekin NAP Region Ground Water Flow Systems
• Fitzroy NAP Region Ground Water Flow Systems
• Bouguer Gravity Image
• Magnetic Images
• Radiometric Images

Landsat 7 mosaic

The Landsat series of satellites commenced acquiring remotely sensed data with the launch of Landsat 1 in 1972. Landsat satellites travel at an altitude of 705 kilometres and provide coverage of the entire globe every 16 days. Landsat 7, launched on 15 April 1999, carries the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+). As the name suggests, the ETM+ sensor is similar to the TM sensor but has some added features. It provides imagery in the same seven spectral bands as the TM sensor with 30 metre resolution, but has an added panchromatic band with 15 metre pixel resolution. ETM+ also has an enhanced thermal band with a 60 metre resolution. Its ground swath is 185 kilometres. A full scene is approximately 184 kilometres by 172 kilometres. The archive of ACRES products includes ETM+ data from 6 July 1999 onwards.

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Regolith Terrains of Australia

Australia has been divided into 392 Regolith Terrain Units on the basis of dominant topography, geology and regolith. Full details available in BMR Record 1986/27 has been used to attribute this dataset.

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Land Systems

These data are based on the Land Systems (Dawson-Fitzroy Area, Nogoa-Belyando Area and Isaac-Comet Area) maps created by the Division of Land Research, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in 1967 and 1968:

1. CSIRO, 1967a, Lands of the Isaac-Comet Area, Queensland : Land Research Series, v. 19, p. 151.
2. CSIRO, 1967b, Lands of the Nogoa-Belyando Area, Queensland: Land Research Series, v. 18, p. 190.
3. CSIRO, 1977, Land Units of the Fitzroy Region, Queensland: Land Research Series, v. 39.

The scale of the original maps was 8 miles to 1 inch.

There is currently no more metadata available for this layer.

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Physiographic Regions

These data are based on Jennings & Mabbutt, 1986. The 2004 re-interpretation was done during the course of the Burdekin-Fitzroy project based on other available digital datasets.

There is currently no additional metadata available.

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Australian Groundwater Flow Systems - National Land and Water Resources Audit, January 2000

The data shows the distribution of groundwater flow systems at a national scale. These flow systems were based on their hydrogeological characteristics using a combination of geology, geomorphology and topographical (Digital Elevation Model) information at a national scale. The groundwater flowsystems identify the extent of groundwater processes contributing to salinity, together with the characteristic hydrogeological processes considered likely to result in dryland salinity given suitable climatic conditions.

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Burdekin NAP Region Ground Water Flow Systems

Burdekin NAP Region Ground Water Flow Systems defines attributes for hydrogeological provinces that form a groundwater flow system.

Developed for the Queensland portion of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, to assist in planning and management decisions.

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Fitzroy NAP Region Ground Water Flow Systems

Fitzroy NAP Region Ground Water Flow Systems defines attributes for hydrogeological provinces that form a groundwater flow system.

Developed for the Queensland portion of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, to assist in planning and management decisions.

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Bouguer Gravity Image

This image was derived from gridded gravity station data that combines accurate onshore gravity measurements from government and company sources. The cell values represent simple Bouguer anomalies at a density of 2.67 tm-³ onshore and free-air anomalies offshore. The data was obtained from the Australian National Gravity Database hosted by Geoscience Australia.

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Magnetic Images

The magnetic images are derived from a stitched compilation of total magnetic intensity aeromagnetic grids (400m line spacing) sourced from Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Geoscience Australia, Fugro Airborne Surveys and company sources. This stitch was performed by Geoscience Australia. These surveys are held within the National Airborne Geophysics Database with exception of the multi-client data (Clermont and Charters Towers) which remains the property Fugro Airborne Surveys and is subject to their copyright.

The data were collected in surveys conducted by airborne geophysical companies operating under contracts to the Queensland Geological Survey, either separately or in joint projects. Data from a number of other surveys, carried out for private companies, were acquired by Geoscience Australia for this project. Most of these surveys are open file and available from QDNRM&E on request

The data in the magnetic images has been represented at the grid resolution (1 pixel = 100m). The areas covered by the multi-client survey data (Fugro Airborne Surveys) is shown at a quarter of its original resolution for confidentiality purposes.

For further information regarding the multi-client data contact Fugro Airborne Surveys or the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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Radiometric Images

The radiometric images are derived from a stitched compilation of Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Geoscience Australia, Fugro Airborne Surveys and open file company gridded 3 band gamma (K, Th, U) spectrometry survey data. These surveys are held within the National Airborne Geophysics Database with exception of the multi-client data (Clermont and Charters Towers) which remains the property Fugro Airborne Surveys and is subject to their copyright.

The data were collected in surveys conducted by airborne geophysical companies operating under contracts to the Queensland Geological Survey, either separately or in joint projects. Data from a number of other surveys, carried out for private companies, were acquired by Geoscience Australia for this project. Most of these surveys are open file and available from QDNR&M on request

The data in the radiometric images has been represented at the grid resolution (1 pixel = 100m). The areas covered by the multi-client survey data (Fugro Airborne Surveys) is shown at a quarter of its original resolution for confidentiality purposes.

For further information regarding the multi-client data contact Fugro Airborne Surveys or the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.

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