Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2011 with Economic and Reserve Classifications

Australia's Identified Mineral Resources is an annual nationwide assessment providing a long-term view of mineral resources available for mining. The 2011 revised edition includes Economic Demonstrated Resources (EDR), JORC Code ore reserves, and evaluations of long-term trends and world rankings. This assessment was published by the Australian Ocean Data Network and revised in 2014.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term trends in mineral resource availability based on the annual assessment methodology.
• Compare short-term JORC Code ore reserves with long-term Economic Demonstrated Resources (EDR).
• Benchmark Australia's mineral resources against world rankings mentioned in the assessment.
• Review significant exploration results and mining industry developments summarized in the report.

Strengths

• Provides a long-term national assessment of mineral resources, a key feature of the dataset.
• Includes both Economic Demonstrated Resources (EDR) and JORC Code ore reserves for comparison.
• Contains evaluations of long-term trends and world rankings, as stated in the description.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from the 2011 assessment, revised in 2014; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Annual nationwide assessment of mineral resources.

Time Range

Assessment year 2011.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 15:34:59.098526; the underlying data is from the 2011 assessment.

Geography

Australia