Mineral Deposit Database containing over 6500 South Australian mines and mineral deposits
MINDEP Online offers a broad range of searching criteria and includes dropdown lists and auto complete text boxes to make searching quick and easy.
Information that can be found using MINDEP Online:
- Deposit status, deposit summary and deposit description
- Location details
- Major/Minor commodities
- Operational type, operational status
- Regional and local ore controls, relationship to host rock; ore and host rock lithology and stratigraphic units
- Ore and gangue mineralogy
- Cox and Singer deposit classification
- Historic mine summary cards downloads
- Links to SARIG publication and reports database
MINDEP online search results can be downloaded in a zipped data package containing six comma-separated values (csv) files or can be viewed on the SARIG Map.
MINDEP data delivery via SARIG
SARIG displays MINDEP site locations and also offers mine and deposit data subsets: Active/non active, by commodity and contained resources.
MINDEP site locations can be downloaded from SARIG in multiple file formats:
- ArcGIS shapefiles and geodatabase
- MapInfo Tab
- Google Earth KMZ
- Web Services WMS/WFS
MINDEP spatial datasets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 CC-BY