Datasets

The mesac Open Data Portal datasets contain detailed records of seismic surveys and geochemical data, and they are made available here to industry, researchers and the public.

  • Gold (Au) - contained resource

    Locations and known contained resource for mineral deposits. Data sourced from the Mineral Deposits database and separated into commodities for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 11,000 separate South...
      Dataset Published: 17 Apr 2023
    • GDB,
    • SHP,
    • TAB,
    • KMZ

  • Heavy Minerals - contained reserve

    Locations and known contained reserves for mineral deposits. Data sourced from the Mineral Deposits database and separated into commodities for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 11,000 separate South...
      Dataset Published: 17 Apr 2023
    • TAB,
    • KMZ,
    • GDB,
    • SHP

  • All operating pit/cuttings (active)

    Locations of all current and historical mines and mineral deposits. Data separated from the MinDep database into Commodities, Active mines and Non-active mines for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 6500...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • TAB,
    • GDB

  • All metallics (includes U/U3O8)

    Locations of all current and historical mines and mineral deposits. Data separated from the MinDep database into Commodities, Active mines and Non-active mines for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 6500...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • SHP,
    • TAB,
    • GDB,
    • KMZ

  • Manganese mines and mineral deposits

    Locations of all current and historical Manganese mines and mineral deposits.
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • GDB,
    • TAB

  • All pit/cuttings

    Locations of all current and historical mines and mineral deposits. Data separated from the MinDep database into Commodities, Active mines and Non-active mines for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 6500...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • TAB,
    • KMZ,
    • SHP,
    • GDB

  • Lead mines and mineral deposits

    Locations of all current and historical Lead mines and mineral deposits.
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • GDB,
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • TAB

  • All mineral drillholes

    This layer contains all drillholes available in digital form for the dataset area, except for water wells. Holes of the following categories are included: mineral, petroleum and geothermal exploration, stratigraphic drilling, engineering wells and...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1890
    • TAB,
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • GDB

  • Gold mines and mineral deposits

    Locations of all current and historical Gold mines and mineral deposits.
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • KMZ,
    • GDB,
    • SHP,
    • TAB

  • Copper mines and mineral deposits

    Locations of all current and historical Copper mines and mineral deposits.
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • GDB,
    • PDF,
    • TAB,
    • KMZ,
    • SHP

  • Iron Ore mines and mineral deposits

    Locations of all current and historical Iron Ore mineral deposits.
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • TAB,
    • KMZ,
    • SHP,
    • GDB

  • Lead (Pb) - contained resource

    Locations and known contained resource for mineral deposits. Data sourced from the Mineral Deposits database and separated into commodities for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 11,000 separate South...
      Dataset Published: 17 Apr 2023
    • GDB,
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • TAB

  • Kaolin - contained reserve

    Locations and known contained reserves for mineral deposits. Data sourced from the Mineral Deposits database and separated into commodities for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 11,000 separate South...
      Dataset Published: 17 Apr 2023
    • SHP,
    • GDB,
    • KMZ,
    • TAB

  • Geochemistry - rock sample sites

    Rock Sample locations in South Australia that indicate geochemistry sample analyses. The information is extracted from an Oracle database known as SA_GEODATA. Data on geochemistry, geological logs and administrative information for drillholes has...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1890
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • TAB,
    • GDB

  • Mineral Resource Potential

    The Mineral Resource Potential Mapping dataset translates geological mapping, current mineral production tenement locations and a range of other resource information into a three level categorisation of resource potential and suggested planning...
      Dataset Published: 06 Aug 2015
    • SHP,
    • TAB,
    • KMZ,
    • PDF,
    • GDB

  • All operating diggings (active)

    Locations of all current and historical mines and mineral deposits. Data separated from the MinDep database into Commodities, Active mines and Non-active mines for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 6500...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1850
    • SHP,
    • GDB,
    • KMZ,
    • TAB

  • Zinc (Zn) - contained resource

    Locations and known contained resource for mineral deposits. Data sourced from the Mineral Deposits database and separated into commodities for display within SARIG. The Mineral Deposits database contains records of some 11,000 separate South...
      Dataset Published: 17 Apr 2023
    • PNG,
    • KMZ,
    • GDB,
    • SHP,
    • TAB

  • ExploreSA The Gawler Challenge - winners and submission data release

    ExploreSA: The Gawler Challenge is a global online competition from the Government of South Australia. The challenge is to identify or predict areas of potential mineralisation within the Gawler region, using any technique. This dataset contains a...
      Dataset Published: 15 Sep 2020
    • TAB,
    • SHP,
    • KMZ,
    • GDB

  • Mineral Exploration Release Areas (ERA)

    Location of all released mineral exploration release areas (ERA) issued under the Mining Act 1971. From July 2012 amendments to the Mining Act (Section 29) have resulted in a change to the way that expired, surrendered or cancelled exploration licence...
      Dataset Published: 01 Jul 2012
    • KMZ,
    • PDF,
    • TAB,
    • SHP,
    • GDB

  • Mineral and/or Opal Exploration Licence Applications (ELA)

    Location of all current mineral exploration licence applications issued under the Mining Act 1971.
      Dataset Published: 01 Jan 1930
    • GDB,
    • KMZ,
    • SHP,
    • PDF,
    • TAB