Australia's Mineral Resources and Exploration Expenditure for 2009

Geoscience Australia's 2010 report provides estimates of the country's identified mineral resources as of December 2009 for major and minor commodities. These long-term resource estimates are compared with short-to-medium term industry ore reserves and include mine production data from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences. The report also analyzes mineral exploration expenditures for 2008-09 and 2009, presenting trends and Australia's world ranking based on United States Geological Survey information.

Use Cases

• Forecasting long-term mining potential based on identified mineral resource estimates.
• Comparing industry short-term plans with national long-term resource assessments using ore reserve data.
• Analyzing trends in mineral exploration expenditure for the 2008-09 period.
• Benchmarking Australia's mineral resources against global figures using world ranking calculations.

Strengths

• Compares long-term national resource estimates with industry short-term ore reserves, providing a dual perspective.
• Integrates data from multiple authoritative sources including Geoscience Australia, ABARES, and the United States Geological Survey.
• Includes analysis of exploration expenditure trends for two distinct periods: the financial year 2008-09 and the calendar year 2009.

Limitations

• Data is from 2009/2010, which may limit current applicability; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Based on published and unpublished data available to Geoscience Australia, with mine production figures from ABARES and world rankings from USGS publications.

Time Range

Resources estimated as of December 2009; exploration expenditure analyzed for 2008-09 and calendar year 2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:11:47.566298; the underlying data is from 2009.

Geography

Australia