Silver mines and mineral deposits
Published: 01 Jan 1850 Created: 18 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Feb 2025

Locations of all current and historical Silver mines and mineral deposits.

Locations of all current and historical Silver mines and mineral deposits.

About this record

Record No mesac185
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Dataset
Category Type
Document Type
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder
Operator
Geological Province
    Other
    Mine Name
    Stratigraphy
    Commodity silver
    Notes
    
                        
                        
    
                        
                      
    Language English
    Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

    Citations

    Use constraints License
    License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
    Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac185
    Citation 1850. Silver mines and mineral deposits
    https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac185

    Technical information

    Status On Going
    Maintenance and Update Frequency
    Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
    Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[129,-38],[141,-38],[141,-26],[129,-26],[129,-38]]]}
    Purpose
    To display location and characteristics of South Australia's known mineral occurrences.
    To display location and characteristics of South Australia's known mineral occurrences.
    Lineage
    Source data are documents originating from the Department for Energy and Mining, its predecessors and from various mining/mineral exploration companies. Field surveys are in progress for the purpose of adding and refining data.
    Source data are documents originating from the Department for Energy and Mining, its predecessors and from various mining/mineral exploration companies. Field surveys are in progress for the purpose of adding and refining data.

    Attribute details

    Name Definition
    Mineral Deposit No System generated number which uniquely identifies a deposit in SA_GEODATA
    Deposit Name Name of deposit
    Main Reference Identity/specification of the document reference
    Deposit Commodity Codes Shorthand for commodity known in this deposit
    Deposit Commodities List of commodities known to occur in this deposit
    Major Commodity Code Major commodities known to occur in this deposit
    Commodity Species Code Type of commodity species: Element
    Geochem Association Geochemistry associated with deposit
    Discovery Year The year at which the deposit status was recorded
    Mindep Class Code Class of mineral deposit: Deposit
    Operation Type Significant form type of the excavation: quarry (hard rock)
    Dep Map Symbol Code for the significant form type
    Status Type Value Status of activity: not worked (exploration
    Size Type Value Significance in terms of its economic worth: Olympic Dam world wide
    Geological Province Name of host geological province
    Db Resource Reserve Indicator of resource reserve inforamtion in SA_Geodata
    Db Production Indicator of production inforamtion in SA_Geodata
    Db Deposit Doc Image Indicator of document image in SA_Geodata
    Db Excavation Image Indicator of excavation image in SA_Geodata
    Db Deposit Image Indicator of deposit image in SA_Geodata
    Db Deposit File Indicator of a associated file in SA_Geodata
    Cox And Singer Class Deposit Cox and Singer classification
    Regional Ore Control Regional geological controls to mineralisation
    Local Ore Control Local geological controls to mineralisation
    Local Ore Control Comments Comments on local geological controls to mineralisation
    Ore Lithology Code Code for lithology of a mineralised zone
    Ore Strat Name Name of stratigraphic unit identified to be of a mineralised zone
    Ore Map Symbol map symbol of a stratigraphic unit identified to be of a mineralised zone
    Host Lithology Code Code for a lithology of a host to a mineralised zone
    Host Lithology Lithology of a host to a mineralised zone
    Host Strat Name Name of stratigraphic unit identified to be host to a mineralised zone
    Host Map Symbol Map symbol of a stratigraphic unit identified to be host to a mineralised zone
    Latitude Decimal latitude degrees
    Longitude Decimal longitude degrees
    Easting MGA Easting
    Northing MGA Northing
    Zone MGA Zone
    Svy Method Horiz Method used to determine XY position from Google Earth imagery
    Horiz Accuracy Horizontal accuracy of location position in meters
    Source Map Title Name of a map that was a source map for locating a site
    Source Centre Feature used as a point location
    Site Comments General commments about the deposit site