Coal Fields in the Murray Basin, Southeastern Australia at 1:1,000,000 Scale

Major occurrences of coal in the Murray Basin, southeastern Australia, mapped for minerals and petroleum assessment. The dataset was published by the Groundwater Branch of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics (now Geoscience Australia) as part of a joint Commonwealth-State hydrogeological project. It is based on geological mapping from 1991 and was last updated on 2026-04-26.

Use Cases

• Identify potential coal resource locations based on major geological occurrences.
• Support land and water management planning based on surface geological mapping.
• Conduct minerals and petroleum basin assessment based on the 1:1,000,000 scale map.
• Integrate geological data for hydrogeological studies based on the joint Commonwealth-State project framework.

Strengths

• Provides a basin-wide geological map at a 1:1,000,000 scale.
• Created by a national authority (Geoscience Australia) as part of a multi-agency project.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (WMS, SHP, GEOJSON, WFS).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying geological mapping references work from 1991; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry.

Collection Method

Surface geological mapping compiled from the 1:1,000,000 scale International Map of the World Topographic series.

Time Range

Mapping references primary sources from 1991.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 17:28:30.891006.

Geography

Murray Basin, southeastern Australia.