Mine Waste - Geochemistry

This layer delivers geochemical analytical data for samples collected from Australian mine waste sites including tailings, wastes from mineral excavation, slag, fly ash and related mine waste materials. The mineral deposit models used in this layer are modified from the Critical Mineral Mapping Initiative mineral deposit classification scheme (Hofstra et al., 2021).



Geoscience Australia partnered with researchers at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland and the School of Engineering at RMIT University to combine world-class mineral systems understanding with world-leading mine waste research to provide vital data on critical minerals and strategic materials concentrations in mine waste, forming the foundation for secondary resource potential.



The layer has been produced in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Queensland, the Geological Survey of New South Wales, the Northern Territory Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Victoria, the Geological Survey of South Australia, the Geological Survey of Western Australia and Mineral Resources Tasmania.

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Point of contact
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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

  • geochemistry

Place

  • World

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

  • Earth Sciences

Resource constraints

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

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

ama:MineWasteGeochem

Mine Waste - Geochemistry

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/c25e18446f07861a01f63c7547ccae9c8c40fec2

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

https://portal.auscope.org.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c25e18446f07861a01f63c7547ccae9c8c40fec2

Date info (Revision)
2026-10-20T02:45:46.724248Z
Date info (Creation)
2026-10-30T10:15:03

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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