Exploration (maps and data)

Mineral resources & occurrences

• Australian Mines Atlas
  Website containing Australian minerals and energy deposits, mines and processing centres which includes a map-making function.

• Minerals Maps
  Maps by geological regions showing Australian deposits, occurrences and potential for gold, nickel, copper, lead-zinc and diamond. Download the maps as images or PDFs.

• Minerals related publications
  Includes Australia's Identified Mineral Resources.

• Geoscience Portal
  A web-portal to geoscience information and links to online databases from the Australian, State and Northern Territory governments.

• Mineral Tenements Map
  An interactive map search tool to find tenement information across Australia which is updated monthly.

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Regional mineral systems studies

• Regional Projects
  Results of current detailed regional geoscientific studies of geology and mineral systems in partnership with relevant States and the Northern Territory in the Tanami, Gawler, and Paterson regions. There are also details of archived regional projects.

• Regional online mapping systems
  Many of Geoscience Australia's projects are detailed studies of particular regions of Australia. Online GIS/Mapping applications often are outputs of these projects which can be used to assist with the interpretation of the datasets.

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Geology

• Australian Geological Provinces Database
  Search, view and download information about geological provinces of the Australian continent and surrounding offshore regions.

• Stratigraphic Units Database
  In its capacity as the national geological survey, Geoscience Australia maintains a register of stratigraphic units on behalf of the Geological Society of Australia. This database can be queried and results obtained as reports. For references, a search also can be made of GEODX Bibliography, which is the bibliographic database behind the Stratigraphic Units database.

• National Geological Maps

• Scanned Geological 1:250 000 maps
  A map-enabled index to access and download 1:250 000 scale geology maps which have been scanned from paper versions.

• National Geoscience Datasets GIS
  View national geoscience themes, including the geology theme which incorporates regolith, basins, crustal elements, geological regions and others. This data also is available for free download or as an Open GIS Consortium Web Mapping Service.

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Geophysics

• Geophysical Archive Data Delivery System (GADDS)
  A map-enabled tool to selectively partition and download magnetic, radiometric, gravity and elevation data from national, State and Northern Territory surveys. Data is available in both grid and vector formats.

• Airborne Surveys Database (ARGUS)
  The airborne magnetics and gamma-ray spectrometrics database contains digitised and reprocessed versions of analogue strip charts produced prior to 1968 (where quality warrants this). Boundary data are updated biannually.

• Geophysical Maps
  Find geophysical maps including Digital Elevation Model of Australia, magnetic anomaly and gravity anomaly maps as well as index maps of magnetic, gamma-ray and gravity stations.

• National Geoscience Datasets GIS
  View national geoscience themes, including the geophysics theme which incorporates aeromagnetics, crustal temperature, gravity, geomagnetism, seismic information and others. This data also are available as a free download or as an Open GIS Consortium Web Mapping Service.

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Geochemistry

• OZCHEM National Whole Rock Geochemistry Data
  Download current field geology and geochemistry data derived from Geoscience Australia's databases.

• Virtual Centre for Geofluids and Thermodynamic Data
  The Virtual Centre for Geofluids and Thermodynamic data consists of the Fluids Inclusions database storing data on the composition of geofluids and the FreeGs Database which stores data on thermodynamic properties of geologically important substances such as minerals, gases and aqueous species.

• FreeGs Thermodynamic Calculator
  The FreeGs Thermodynamic Calculator allows database queries and calculations on selected species as well as thermodynamic properties of reactions stored in the FreeGs database. It also allows for a list of chemical reactions composed of database species to be retained and calculations based on them to be carried out.

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Geochronology

• OZCHRON National Geochronology Data
  Download current field geology and geochronological data derived from Geoscience Australia's databases.

• National Geoscience Datasets GIS
  Data are available on national geoscience themes, including the geochronology theme which incorporates Sensitive High Resolution Ion MicroProbe (SHRIMP) data, rubidium/strontium (Rb/Sr) data, samarium/newdymium (Sm/Nd) data and uranium/lead (U/Pb) data from the OZCHRON database and others as a free download or as an Open GIS Consortium Web Mapping Service.