Mines and Mineral Occurrence Sites

dataset: MINSITE
Sites where earth resources have been demonstrated. This includes metallics, industrial minerals and construction materials, but excludes oil, gas and groundwater resources which are recorded in OILGAS and BORES datasets. OILGAS will be available for external users within Petroleum Mapshare. It is thought that groundwater resources will be available to external users within a CLPR (Catchment and Land Protection) Mapshare View. The data is derived from Minerals and Petroleums RDBMS, which is known as VICMINE. Information on each site has been compiled mostly from historical literature, with only selected major sites visited in the field. NOTES CONCERNING GEOVIC "Mines and Mineral Occurrence" DISPLAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The type of mine/mineral occurrence displayed varies with the scale of the map view. Major and Intermediate size mines are displayed at all scales. Minor and Unknown size Mines are displayed at scales ranging from 1:1 to 1:500,000 MAJOR is for mine_size greater than= 85000000 MINOR is for mine_size less than 8500000 INTERMEDIATE is for mine_size between the two UNKNOWN is when the mine_size is unknown MINE_SIZE (better name would be MINE_VALUE) is a calculated dollar amount based on the total production and resource for each commodity multiplied by the commodity price (NOTE: these commodity prices have not been updated in some time eg: as of 13/1/2013 the gold price per ounce used was $526.70 - April 1985 prices) NOTES CONCERNING GEOVIC "Deposit Styles" DISPLAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A number of deposit style layers exist in GeoVic. The layers are based on particular values of the dep_style attribute - within this dataset. The dep_style attribute contains the results of classifying the mineral deposits of Victoria east of approximately 142°30' and west of 145°30', but excluding the Willaura (7422) 1:100 000 map sheet area. The classification is described in detail in Moore, D.H., 2007. "Classifying gold deposits in central and western Victoria, Australia. GeoScience Victoria Gold Undercover Report". GENERAL NOTES CONCERNING GEOVIC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Refer to Mineral Regions 1M (MINERAL) for extent of brown and black coal fields, Heavy Mineral Sands 1M (MINSAND1M) for extent of strandline mineral sand deposits, and Heavy Minerals Sands WIM 1M (MINSAND1M) for extent of WIM style mineral sand deposits.
 
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(2019)

Mines and Mineral Occurrence Sites

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

Description

Title
Mines and Mineral Occurrence Sites 
Alternate title
MINSITE 
Resource Type
Dataset  
Purpose
To provide earth resources summary information from the RDBMS including: site location; commodities; production and resources/reserves; basic geology; basic mine history; scanned plans, and references. 
Credit
Jonathon Thom, Simon Maher, Iain McHaffie, Andrew Radojkovic, Avi Olshina. 
Supplemental Information
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Status
Completed  
 
 

Temporal

Time period
1996-01-01 
 
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Horizontal Accuracy
250m  
Code
4283 
Description
General - Victoria 
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Maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency
Continual  
 
 

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Keywords

Topic category
  • Society
  • Economy
  • Geoscientific information
 
 

Resource Constraints

Use limitation
<a href=&#09; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&#09;>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</a> 
Classification
Unclassified  
 
 

Lineage

Statement
Dataset Source: Sites Database (Vicmine) in Minerals and Petroleum Dataset Originality: Derived 
 
 

Metadata Constraints

Classification
Unclassified  
 
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
good 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Variable - accuracy is specified for each location 
Conceptual Consistency
Comments
good 
Missing Data
Comments
Key areas of State including Palaeozoic bedrock areas (excluding the area around Melbourne). Only gold mines in the Bendigo Goldfield that have produced more than 30000 oz are included. Refer to Mine shafts- Bendigo Hazards for a more complete record of gold mines in the Bendigo Goldfield. Completeness Verification: Metadata Custodian Review Frequency: yearly Metadata Last Reviewed by Custodian: April 2003 
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