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Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation

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Herein we present the results of a national compilation of mineral deposits (available in Excel or CSV format) for Australia. The deposits were selected as they have substantial endowment (i.e. pre-mining mineral resource) and/or detailed geological information is available. For each deposit (or, in some cases, district) the dataset includes information on: 1. Name (including synonyms), location and GA identifying numbers; 2. Tectonic province that hosts the deposit; 3. Type(s) and age(s) of mineralising events that produced/affected the deposit (including metadata on ages); 4. The metal/mineral endowment of the deposit; 5. Host rocks to the deposit; 6. Spatially and/or temporally associated magmatic rocks; 7. Spatially and temporally associated alteration assemblages (mostly proximal, but, in some cases, regional assemblages); 8. The Fe-S-O minerals present in the deposit and relative abundances where known; 9. Sulfate minerals present; 10. Peak metamorphic grade; 11. Data sources; and 12. Comments. This document presents more detailed descriptions of the metadata presented in the compilation. The dataset is presented in Appendix A. Appendix B presents a national classification of geological provinces based mostly on existing State survey classifications; Appendix C presents a deposit classification based on the classification proposed by Hofstra et al. (2021); and Appendix D presents mineral abbreviations used in the dataset.

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Title Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/aa99fe8a-8da0-4c50-8aa2-71b7b1a26a74
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Geoscience Australia
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 03/02/2020 - 11/08/2021
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.92, -54.75], [159.11, -54.75], [159.11, -9.2402], [112.92, -9.2402], [112.92, -54.75]]]}
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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Geological setting, age and endowment of major Australian mineral deposits - a compilation". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/geological-setting-age-and-endowment-of-major-australian-mineral-deposits-a-compilation