Data & sources
Every record on this site traces to public government data. This page is the ledger.
Primary sources
Geoscience Australia — OZMIN. Mine and mineral-deposit records via the EarthResourceML-Lite web feature service. © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia.
Government of South Australia — SARIG. Major mines, major quarries and developing projects datasets. © Government of South Australia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. South Australian project descriptions on site pages are reproduced from these datasets with attribution.
Victorian Government — Current Extractive Industry Tenements. Current extractive work authorities are ingested from the Victorian open-data WFS under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The public derivative excludes phone, fax, street-address, correspondence and regulator-contact fields. Map points are derived from public authority polygons and are not surveyed entrances.
Additional state datasets—including NSW Mineral Occurrences and Queensland spatial services—are being evaluated progressively. Each licence, field transform and publication gate will be documented before new records appear.
Methodology, briefly
Source datasets are fetched as dated snapshots, normalised into a single schema, deduplicated (name and proximity matching), and passed through a publication gate: a record is only published with a name, type, status, state, at least one mapped commodity, coordinates, and at least one government source. Records that fail the gate — including roughly 1,427 historical workings — are held unpublished until they can be completed. State assignment near borders is deliberately conservative: ambiguous points are excluded rather than guessed.
Register last rebuilt from source data: 2026-08-29. Statuses can change between dataset releases; treat operator announcements as the live word.
Imagery
Photographic imagery on this site is illustrative of the industry and its country — it does not depict specific listed operations, and is labelled accordingly.
Reuse
Short excerpts with a link are welcome. For anything more — bulk use, research, commercial licensing of the consolidated register — contact us.