Special Declared Areas
Created: 19 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Feb 2025

Location of nominated areas that are excluded from:the Mining Act 1971 (the Act) in full or in part;mining or mining operations (which includes exploration) under the Act;a specified class of mining under the Act; orapplications made under the...

Location of nominated areas that are excluded from:the Mining Act 1971 (the Act) in full or in part;mining or mining operations (which includes exploration) under the Act;a specified class of mining under the Act; orapplications made under the Act.The exclusion will be for a specified period of time.

Refer to the following sections of the Act for further information about each type of area: Special Declared Area (SDA) - refer to section 9A of the Act

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About this record

Record No mesac948
Topic Boundaries
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/mesac948
      Citation Special Declared Areas
      https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac948

      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 manage access to the Special Declared Areas
      To manage access to the Special Declared Areas
      Lineage
      Tenement licence documents from the Mining Register and Digital cadastre. Attribute data linked from the Mining Register database. Matched to DCDB, GPS coordinates, and some manual digitising
      Positional accuracy:Dependant on spatial data source...
      Tenement licence documents from the Mining Register and Digital cadastre. Attribute data linked from the Mining Register database. Matched to DCDB, GPS coordinates, and some manual digitising
      Positional accuracy:Dependant on spatial data source
      
      CAPTURE SCALE; 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 Generally accepted as 1:100,000 accuracy
      MAXIMUM PLOT SCALE; 1:50,000
      Attribute accuracy:Dependant on accuracy of source data

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      Attribute details

      Name Definition
      Area Type Type of area: Exploration Release - area that was previously under Exploration Licence and is now being released through the ERA process. Section 15 Gazettal - area that has been gazetted by the Minister for the conduct of geological investigations. The Minister may refuse to receive and consider applications for a mining tenement in the area. Special Declared - area that has been gazetted by the Minister as exempt from either: mining; a specific class of mining; the Mining Act 1971; or a provision of that Act.
      Area Legal Total area of the moratorium area
      Location General location of the moratorium area
      File Reference File reference in Minerals and Energy Resources records management system
      Publish Date Date that information about the area was published - either as a Gazette notice or in the public notices of a statewide newspaper
      Area Start Date Date the area came into effect
      Area End Date Date the area is due to cease
      Area Status Status of the area:Unavailable - area is not available for applications (applies to all types)
      Term Years Term of the area - years
      Term Days Term of the area - days
      Finalised Date ERA - Date the ERA was finalised
      Related Tenements Previous tenements that relate to the moratorium area