Mines and Mineral Occurrence Sites

dataset: MINSITE
Sites where earth resources have been demonstrated. This includes metallics, industrial minerals and construction materials, but excludes oil, gas and groundwater resources which are recorded in OILGAS and BORES datasets. OILGAS will be available for external users within Petroleum Mapshare. It is thought that groundwater resources will be available to external users within a CLPR (Catchment and Land Protection) Mapshare View. The data is derived from Minerals and Petroleums RDBMS, which is known as VICMINE. Information on each site has been compiled mostly from historical literature, with only selected major sites visited in the field. NOTES CONCERNING GEOVIC "Mines and Mineral Occurrence" DISPLAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The type of mine/mineral occurrence displayed varies with the scale of the map view. Major and Intermediate size mines are displayed at all scales. Minor and Unknown size Mines are displayed at scales ranging from 1:1 to 1:500,000 MAJOR is for mine_size greater than= 85000000 MINOR is for mine_size less than 8500000 INTERMEDIATE is for mine_size between the two UNKNOWN is when the mine_size is unknown MINE_SIZE (better name would be MINE_VALUE) is a calculated dollar amount based on the total production and resource for each commodity multiplied by the commodity price (NOTE: these commodity prices have not been updated in some time eg: as of 13/1/2013 the gold price per ounce used was $526.70 - April 1985 prices) NOTES CONCERNING GEOVIC "Deposit Styles" DISPLAY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A number of deposit style layers exist in GeoVic. The layers are based on particular values of the dep_style attribute - within this dataset. The dep_style attribute contains the results of classifying the mineral deposits of Victoria east of approximately 142°30' and west of 145°30', but excluding the Willaura (7422) 1:100 000 map sheet area. The classification is described in detail in Moore, D.H., 2007. "Classifying gold deposits in central and western Victoria, Australia. GeoScience Victoria Gold Undercover Report". GENERAL NOTES CONCERNING GEOVIC ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Refer to Mineral Regions 1M (MINERAL) for extent of brown and black coal fields, Heavy Mineral Sands 1M (MINSAND1M) for extent of strandline mineral sand deposits, and Heavy Minerals Sands WIM 1M (MINSAND1M) for extent of WIM style mineral sand deposits.
 
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Mines and Mineral Occurrence Sites

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
 

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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id
ANZVI0803002225 
Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema
MINERALS:MINSITE 
Jurisdiction
Victoria 
Topic category
  • Society
  • Economy
  • Geoscientific information
 

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Date ( Revision )
2019-09-17
Date ( Publication )
2025-11-29T05:49:42
Status
Completed  
Purpose
To provide earth resources summary information from the RDBMS including: site location; commodities; production and resources/reserves; basic geology; basic mine history; scanned plans, and references. 
Credit
Jonathon Thom, Simon Maher, Iain McHaffie, Andrew Radojkovic, Avi Olshina. 
Supplemental Information
Related Documents: None 
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual  
Maintenance date ( Publication )
2023-03-18T04:09:48
 

Spatial

Spatial representation type
Vector  
Description
General - Victoria 
Reference system identifier
4283

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Temporal

Begin date
1996-01-01 
End date
now  
 

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy
250m  
 

Quality

Conceptual Consistency
good 
Missing Data
Key areas of State including Palaeozoic bedrock areas (excluding the area around Melbourne). Only gold mines in the Bendigo Goldfield that have produced more than 30000 oz are included. Refer to Mine shafts- Bendigo Hazards for a more complete record of gold mines in the Bendigo Goldfield. Completeness Verification: Metadata Custodian Review Frequency: yearly Metadata Last Reviewed by Custodian: April 2003 
Attribute Quality
good 
Positional Accuracy
Variable - accuracy is specified for each location 
 

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Statement
Dataset Source: Sites Database (Vicmine) in Minerals and Petroleum Dataset Originality: Derived 
 

Attributes

Column Name Obligation Unique Data Type Data Length Data Precision Data Scale Reference Table Owner Reference Table Name Reference Table Code Column Name Short Column Name Definition
HOST_LITH O N VARCHAR2 100 HOST_LITH
MINEDLENG O N NUMBER 22 38 8 MINEDLENG
ADIT O N VARCHAR2 3 ADIT
PROJECT O N VARCHAR2 30 PROJECT
DEP_TY_GEN O N VARCHAR2 30 DEP_TY_GEN
MAP250 O N VARCHAR2 8 MAP250
PROD_COMM O N VARCHAR2 100 PROD_COMM
LATITUDE O N NUMBER 22 38 8 LATITUDE
PLOTTYPE O N VARCHAR2 30 PLOTTYPE
FEAT_TYPE O N VARCHAR2 30 FEAT_TYPE
SEC_COMM O N VARCHAR2 100 SEC_COMM
AI_SYMBOL O N NUMBER 22 4 0 AI_SYMBOL
ELEV_GL O N NUMBER 22 38 8 ELEV_GL
SHAFT O N VARCHAR2 3 SHAFT
DEPTH O N NUMBER 22 38 8 DEPTH
ELEV_ACC O N NUMBER 22 4 0 ELEV_ACC
REF_IDS O N VARCHAR2 150 REF_IDS
PLAN_NOS O N VARCHAR2 250 PLAN_NOS
LOCN_ACC O N NUMBER 22 10 0 LOCN_ACC
ELEV_METH O N VARCHAR2 30 ELEV_METH
MIN_ASS O N VARCHAR2 250 MIN_ASS
ORE O N VARCHAR2 100 ORE
EASTING O N NUMBER 22 38 8 EASTING
FIELD_NAME O N VARCHAR2 80 FIELD_NAME
DATUM O N VARCHAR2 10 DATUM
DEP_STYLE O N VARCHAR2 100 DEP_STYLE
MINE_NAME O N VARCHAR2 80 MINE_NAME
PRI_COMM O N VARCHAR2 100 PRI_COMM
GOLD_P_GMS O N NUMBER 22 10 0 GOLD_P_GMS
MINE_TYPE O N VARCHAR2 30 MINE_TYPE
LOCN_METH O N VARCHAR2 30 LOCN_METH
PROD O N VARCHAR2 100 PROD
LONGITUDE O N NUMBER 22 38 8 LONGITUDE
ORE_UNITS O N VARCHAR2 50 ORE_UNITS
SITE_TYPE O N VARCHAR2 5 SITE_TYPE
SLUICING O N VARCHAR2 3 SLUICING
ROT_ANGLE O N NUMBER 22 4 0 ROT_ANGLE
AUDINTREND O N NUMBER 22 10 0 AUDINTREND
MINE_SIZE O N NUMBER 22 38 8 MINE_SIZE
DREDGING O N VARCHAR2 3 DREDGING
DEP_TY_SP O N VARCHAR2 30 DEP_TY_SP
IN_SITU O N VARCHAR2 3 IN_SITU
OPEN_CUT O N VARCHAR2 3 OPEN_CUT
ZONE O N NUMBER 22 4 0 ZONE
MAP100 O N VARCHAR2 4 MAP100
ORE_DD O N NUMBER 22 10 0 ORE_DD
SIZE_CAT O N VARCHAR2 12 SIZE_CAT
ORE_D O N NUMBER 22 10 0 ORE_D
PROD_UNITS O N VARCHAR2 50 PROD_UNITS
FEATURE O N VARCHAR2 12 FEATURE
MAP25 O N VARCHAR2 8 MAP25
NORTHING O N NUMBER 22 38 8 NORTHING
SITEID O N NUMBER 22 10 0 SITEID
GOLD_ORE_T O N NUMBER 22 10 0 GOLD_ORE_T
MININGMETH O N VARCHAR2 150 MININGMETH
DECLINE O N VARCHAR2 3 DECLINE
AV_SYMBOL O N VARCHAR2 5 AV_SYMBOL
MI_SYMBOL O N VARCHAR2 30 MI_SYMBOL
MAP50 O N VARCHAR2 6 MAP50
 

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2025-07-01T09:14:06
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ISO 19115-3:2018 
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DELWP Profile 
Profile Version
Version 1 
Profile Date
2019-05-24  
 

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