Mineral Resource Potential

Published: 06 Aug 2015 Created: 19 Nov 2024 Revised: 28 Mar 2025

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 responses. 1.High Mineral Potential &/or Current Operation. Full planning protection required from incompatible development. Important mineral resource area. Current mining operation, current mineral tenement, Extractive Industry Zone, known economically viable mineral resource/reserve established by drilling, trenching etc. or high potential for resource/reserve although full investigation to resource/reserve status not yet undertaken. 2.Medium Mineral Potential. Mineral Potential should be considered in planning. Further consultation or investigation before incompatible development allowed. Moderate to good geological potential for significant resources known from preliminary geological studies but investigation required to establish resource and economic viability. 3.Low Mineral Potential. No specific planning protection required. No or very little known mineral resource potential based on current information. May include some sources of construction material eg fill or other low specification material for local use from pits operated by councils. Changes in mineral resource market requirements, in geological knowledge and information and in exploration techniques may significantly alter the mineral potential categories applicable to areas. The latter two factors are particularly relevant to the potential for metallic minerals.

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About this record

Record No	mesac777
Topic	Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource	Dataset
Category Type	Earth Sciences Geochemistry Geology Geophysics Geospatial Information Systems Mineral Exploration Mineral Resource Geology Physical Geography Regional Geology
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/mesac777
Citation	2015. Mineral Resource Potential https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac777

Technical information

Status	Completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference	GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
Geo bounding box	{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[137.5,-35.59702782],[139.54833984,-35.59702782],[139.54833984,-32],[137.5,-32],[137.5,-35.59702782]]]}
Purpose	Mineral resource potential information for government, planners, resource and exploration industry. Mineral resource potential information for government, planners, resource and exploration industry.
Lineage	Source data:100k geology, Mineral Production Tenements digital dataset, 50k geological maps, hardcopy Non-Metallic Resource Series maps (Johnson, 1994). The remainder of the interpretation is newly created for this dataset using mineral resource... Source data:100k geology, Mineral Production Tenements digital dataset, 50k geological maps, hardcopy Non-Metallic Resource Series maps (Johnson, 1994). The remainder of the interpretation is newly created for this dataset using mineral resource information from departmental and some company reports and interpretation by geological authors. The dataset is designed to assist land use planning. The data are not suitable for use in mineral resource investment decisions. Many areas categorised as having mineral resource potential do not have sufficient drilling or other information to define resources or reserves to mineral industry (JORC) standards. The mineral resource potential information is largely interpretative in nature and is based on information available at the time of compilation. New information or further interpretation of existing information may significantly change the assessments of mineral resource potential shown on this map. The Joint Ore Reserves Committee of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Australian Institute of Geoscientists and Minerals Council of Australia. The JORC Code is the Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. More +

Attribute details

Name	Definition
Product Category	Type of product
Commodity	List of known commodities
Potential	Mineral resource potential: 1 = High
Use	Common use of product
Deposit Name	Name of known mineral deposit
Date Current	Date of relevant mapsheet data currency
50K Map Download	50K Mapsheet Name
Reference	Mineral resource potential map series reference for the relevant 50K mapsheet
Reference Link	Link to the relevant 50K mapsheet reference