All prospects
Published: 01 Jan 1850 Created: 19 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Feb 2025

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...

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 separate South Australian mines and mineral deposits and can be searched by deposit name, mineral district, commodity, mapsheet or coordinates. Cross references are provided to Report Books, Envelopes and Jounral articles.

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Record No mesac675
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Dataset
Category Type
Document Type
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder
Operator
Geological Province
    Other
    Mine Name
    Stratigraphy
    Commodity
      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/mesac675
      Citation 1850. All prospects
      https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac675

      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