The Minerals value-chain ScoreCard, initiated in 2001, provides information regarding the performance of South Australia’s mineral industry across the exploration, investment, production, processing and export stages of wealth creation. In doing so, the ScoreCard measures give critical information on the minerals strategic development targets (South Australia’s Strategic Plan, 2011), as well as assisting in the development of programs designed to aid expansion of the mineral industry. The minerals industry in South Australia continues to be driven by: • The South Australian Government’s PACE 2020 Initiative: this is credited with providing incentives for stimulating and maintaining exploration. South Australia was again the only Australian State in which greenfields exploration expenditure was greater than brownfields. • Exploration discoveries: tangible outcomes of advanced exploration (six maiden resource figures and several resource/reserve upgrades released to the ASX) reported during the period have maintained investor confidence and confirm the State’s mineral endowment. • South Australia’s stable and progressive regulatory environment: this has ensured a steady stream of projects progressing to development stage, and capital expenditure has increased despite no single large capital projects being initiated during this period. • The global demand for South Australian mineral resources: this remains high as evidenced by increasing international investment in South Australian mineral projects. • New mines, mine expansions and sustained commodity prices: these have led to sustained levels of production and exports. The highlight for 2012–13 was the increase in capital expenditure by 51%. However, small decreases were recorded across most scorecard measures for the mineral industry valuechain.