australia's identified mineral resources 2005 - Geoscience Australia

More documents

Recommendations

Info

AUSTRALIA’S IDENTIFIED MINERAL RESOURCES 2005 Australian Government Geoscience Australia Industry, Tourism and Resources Portfolio Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources: The Hon. Ian Macfarlane, MP Parliamentary Secretary: The Hon. Warren Entsch, MP Geoscience Australia* Chief Executive Officer, Geoscience Australia: Dr Neil Williams © Commonwealth of Australia, 2005 This work is copyright. Apart from any fair dealings for the purposes of study, research, criticism, or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Copyright is the responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer, Geoscience Australia. Requests and enquiries should be directed to the Chief Executive Officer, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601. ABN: 80 091 799 039. Geoscience Australia has tried to make the information in this product as accurate as possible. However, it does not guarantee that the information is totally accurate or complete. Therefore, you should not rely solely on this information when making a commercial decision. ISSN 1327-1466 Bibliographic reference: Geoscience Australia 2005. Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources 2005. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. * Geoscience Australia grew out of the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) and the Division of National Mapping, both of which were founded soon after World War 2. BMR became the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) in 1992, several years after the Division of National Mapping had become the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG). In 2001, AGSO and AUSLIG merged to become Geoscience Australia, the nation’s geoscience research and information agency. Further information is available at www.ga.gov.au. FRONT COVER: Iron ore train from West Angelas mine, Western Australia (Pilbara Iron Pty Ltd) 2 DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Lindy Gratton, Geospatial Applications and Visualisation (GAV), Geoscience Australia
AUSTRALIA’S IDENTIFIED MINERAL RESOURCES 2005 Foreword Geoscience Australia provides information on the nation’s future capacity to produce mineral resources. Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources is an annual nation-wide assessment of Australia’s ore reserves and mineral resources, which takes a long term view of what is potentially economic. Data on mining company estimates of ore reserves (JORC Code), which are generally based on short- to medium-term commercial considerations, are included for comparison. The assessment also includes evaluations of long-term trends in mineral resources, international rankings, summaries of significant exploration results, brief reviews of mining industry developments, and an analysis of mineral exploration expenditure across Australia. Comparable information on petroleum resources is published in another Geoscience Australia publication: Oil and Gas Resources of Australia. Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources provides technical information on mineral and energy resources, which is used in formulating government policies and reproduced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. It also provides government, industry, the investment sector and general community with an informed understanding of Australia’s known mineral endowment and levels of exploration activity. Australia’s resource stocks remain healthy overall, although there has been a levelling off of resource trends for several major commodities. Expansions in mine production of coking coal, iron ore, uranium and other commodities continued in 2004 and the resources sector overall continued to contribute to Australia’s prosperity – economically, environmentally and socially. In 2004–05, over 35% of the country’s total exports with an estimated worth of $65 billion, came from the resources sector. The sustainability of the minerals industry and its major contributions to the nation’s prosperity is inexorably linked to effective exploration, leading to discovery and development of new ore deposits. In turn, successful exploration outcomes rely heavily upon continuing updates of precompetitive geoscience data by government agencies. In particular, there is a need for stateof-the-art regional geoscience data to reduce risks in identifying exploration targets in prospective frontier regions. It is in such regions, which are characterised by extensive barren cover, that the best potential exists for the large deposits that are of interest to major mining companies. Australia’s decline from first to fifth in global exploration expenditure over the past five years is largely a reflection of the paucity of information for these regions, which has been influencing major companies to explore in other parts of the world where they consider exploration risks are lower. Resources data from Australia’s Identified Mineral Resources are available online in an atlas of Australia’s Mineral Resources, Mines and Processing Centres, developed by Geoscience Australia with support from the Minerals Council of Australia and Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources, through the Government’s Regional Minerals Program. The atlas, at www.australianminesatlas.gov.au, has a web-based GIS (geographic information system) format and shows the location of mineral and energy resources, mines and production/processing centres. 3 NEIL WILLIAMS Chief Executive Officer Geoscience Australia
Page 1: AUSTRALIA’S IDENTIFIED MINERAL RE
Page 5 and 6: AUSTRALIA’S IDENTIFIED MINERAL RE
Page 53 and 54:
AUSTRALIA’S IDENTIFIED MINERAL RE
Page 55 and 56:
Page 57 and 58:
Page 59 and 60:
Page 61 and 62:
Page 63 and 64:
Page 65 and 66:
Page 67 and 68:
Page 69 and 70:
Page 71 and 72:
Page 73 and 74:
Page 75 and 76:
Page 77 and 78:
Exploration drilling south of the B
Page 79 and 80:
Page 81 and 82:
Page 83 and 84:
Page 85 and 86:
Page 87 and 88:
Page 89 and 90:
Page 91:
show all

australia's identified mineral resources 2005 - Geoscience Australia

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?