Mineral Exploration Promotion Section

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Overview

Geoscience Australia aims to facilitate increased exploration expenditure in Australia by promoting both the benefits of exploring in Australia and the geoscience information available to reduce exploration risk.

The Mineral Exploration Promotion section aims to encourage investment in mineral exploration and discovery of mineral resources in Australia by increasing the awareness of mineral exploration opportunities. Section activities include technical presentations and exhibitions at selected major national and international mineral exploration and mining conferences, and targeted releases of scientific reports, maps and datasets that highlight Australia’s mineral resource potential.

Geoscience Australia's mineral exploration promotional activities are undertaken in partnership with the State and Northern Territory Geological Surveys as well as agencies with responsibility for mining and exploration.

The program is coordinated through the Exploration Investment and Geoscience Working Group (EIGWG) , of the Standing Council on Energy and Resources . EIGWG has developed a National Mineral Exploration Strategy .

Comprehensive information for investors in mineral and petroleum exploration and development is available from:

• Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism (RET)
• Australian Trade Commission
• Australian Mines Atlas

Section outcomes

• Increased global awareness of mineral exploration opportunities in Australia
• Enhance global attractiveness of Australian exploration opportunities
• Generate an increased awareness of mineral exploration opportunities in Australia and of the pre-competitive geoscience information available to support mineral exploration in Australia.

Featured maps, reports and downloads

• Australian mining and mineral exploration in 2011: A national perspective - presentation by Dr James Johnson
• National Geoscientific Data for Explorers - poster
• Geoscientific datasets and reports for mineral exploration

Australian Operating Mines Map, 2012

Australian In Situ Iron Ore Resources, (Sheet 1 and Sheet 2), 2012

Australian In Situ Coal Resources, 2012

Australian Gold Resources Map, (Sheet 1 and Sheet 2), July 2012

Recent mineral exploration promotion activity

• Mineral Exploration Seminar, Beijing, China, November 2012
• China Mining, Tianjin, China, November 2012
• Australia-Japan Mineral Exploration Investment Seminar, Tokyo, Japan, November 2012
• Mining 2012, Brisbane, Australia, November 2012
• Association of Mining and Exploration (AMEC), Perth, Australia, September 2012
• Federation of Indian Mineral Industries Conference, Bangalore, India, September 202
• Diggers and Dealers, Kalgoorlie, Australia, September 2012
• Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention 2012, Toronto, Canada, 4-7 March 2012  
• Mineral Investment Seminar, Vancouver, Canada, March 2012

Photos

• 

  Australian Minerals Booth
  at China Mining 2012.

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  Australian Minerals delegates
  at the Mineral Exploration and
  Mining Opportunities Seminar,
  China Mining 2012.

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  A group shot of Team Australia
  members: (L-R) Paul McDonald
  (VIC), Gaomai Trench (WA),
  Rick Rogerson (WA), Laurie Hutton
  (QLD), Michelle Cooper (GA),
  Susan Moore (GEOJAG), Andrew
  Rowett (SA), Roger Skirrow (GA),
  Tim Baker (SA), Ted Tyne (SA),
  Brad John (QLD) and Neil Williams
  (34th IGC).

• 

  Meeting with China Geological
  Survey, Tianjin.

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  Andy Barnicoat presenting a gift
  to Vice Minister Wang Min, Ministry
  of Land and Resources China,
  while the Hon. Tom Koutsantonis,
  Minister of Resources,
  South Australia, looks on.

• 

  The Team Australia Booth at
  the Prospectors and Developers
  Conference (PDAC) 2012.

Upcoming events

• PDAC 2013 , Toronto, Canada, 3-6 March 2013