Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2009 with World Rankings and Resource Life
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Description
2009 data from Geoscience Australia details Economic Demonstrated Resources for 18 mineral commodities that increased in 2008, including black coal and iron ore, while nine others decreased. The report provides world rankings, showing Australia's resources of brown coal, nickel, and uranium are the world's largest, and analyzes resource life estimates for major commodities. It also discusses exploration expenditure trends for the 2008 calendar year.
Use Cases
Analyzing year-over-year changes in resource estimates based on reported increases and decreases for 27 commodities.
Benchmarking Australia's global mineral resource position based on world ranking data for over 20 commodities.
Modeling long-term mineral supply sustainability based on indicative resource life estimates for commodities like diamonds and gold.
Studying the impact of global market factors on resource exploitation based on the discussion of investment returns and competitiveness.
Strengths
Covers a specific and significant time period, focusing on 2008 data within the context of the late 2008 financial crisis.
Provides concrete world ranking information, listing specific commodities where Australia holds the top global position.
Includes analysis of resource life for major commodities, with specific estimates like 10 years for diamonds and 30 years for gold.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last updated 2026-04-30 14:20:32.136035; freshness should be verified as the underlying data is from 2009.
Provenance
Source
Geoscience Australia Data
Collection Method
Analysis of mineral exploration expenditures and resource assessments.
Time Range
Primary data for calendar year 2008, with decade-long trend analysis from 1997 to 2008.
Freshness
Underlying data is from 2009; metadata was last updated in 2026.
Geography
Australia
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