Mine Waste

This layer delivers governments, industry and the community with accurate location information about more than 1000 Australian mining waste sites including tailings, wastes from mineral excavation, slag, fly ash and related mine waste materials. Data was compiled from a number of publicly-available sources. Where available, data includes mine waste name, waste type, waste status, rehabilitation status, storage type, structure type, associated deposit, deposit model and the associated deposit commodities.



Mineral deposit models are modified from the Critical Mineral Mapping Initiative Mineral Deposit Classification Scheme (Hofstra et al., 2021).



This layer identifies potential new opportunities for critical minerals supply from secondary sources. It helps support the sustainable and economic recovery of critical minerals extraction from, and appropriate management of, mine waste, contributing to Australia’s world-leading environmental, social and governance standards and supporting the transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.



The layer has been produced in collaboration with RMIT University and The University of Queensland. Geoscience Australia acknowledges the mining companies who have supported our work in producing this layer.



For more information about the mining waste data provided in this layer, please see the Australian Mine Waste Database record in Geoscience Australia’s Data and Publications catalogue - https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147516.

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Identification info

Status
Point of contact
Role Organisation Electronic mail address
Point of contact

Geoscience Australia
Spatial representation type
Vector
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Extent

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords

  • mining waste

  • mine waste

  • tailings

Place

  • World

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Resource constraints

Use limitation

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Access constraints
Licence Unrestricted
Use constraints
Licence Unrestricted
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

OnLine resource

ama:MineWaste

Mine Waste

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/7a83e8518bfdbff4e1212022a0c030aac1419d78

Language
English
Character encoding
anyValidURI
Contact
Role Organisation Electronic mail address
Point of contact

Geoscience Australia
Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset

Metadata linkage

Function
Complete Metadata
Metadata linkage

http://portal.auscope.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/177abe2c-9efe-4fd2-a66e-0f1e099c3047

Date info (Revision)
2023-08-18T07:56:01
Date info (Creation)
2026-05-26T10:15:00

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

 
 

Spatial extent

Keywords

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research

Earth Sciences


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