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 total activity in South Australia during 2014-15 contracted from the record high levels of recent years, but continued to be driven by: • The South Australian Government’s PACE Initiative: widely credited with creating successful incentives for stimulating and maintaining mineral exploration, and with providing a direct line-of-sight through the resources value chain. • Exploration discoveries: strong evidence of advanced exploration (maiden resource figures and resource/reserve upgrades released to the ASX) and further new drilling discoveries made during 2014–15 continued to confirm the State’s mineral endowment. • South Australia’s stable and progressive regulatory environment: this ensured that a steady stream of projects were progressing to development stage with new capital spending, despite no single large capital projects being initiated during the period. • Global economics: which remained subdued - but, while most commodity prices during 2014–15 continued to adversely affect investment in mineral exploration, the global demand for South Australian mineral resources remained high, and major international companies continued to invest in South Australian mineral projects. South Australia has earned a reputation globally as one of the best jurisdictions in the world for facilitating the exploration and production of copper, gold, uranium, iron ore and zircon, and also for our State’s efficient mining assessment and approval process. The South Australian Government continues to support long term delivery across the value chain from the commercial use of these nationally and globally significant mineral resources.