Australian Copper Resources Interim Report from 1941

Australia's copper resources were reviewed in an interim report compiled by the Commonwealth Copper & Bauxite Committee. The report, assembled by Technical Secretary M.A. Mawby, coordinated existing government and private reports on the subject. The committee reviewed this compilation along with other relevant information at a meeting in Sydney on 1st August 1941.

Use Cases

• Study historical resource assessment methodologies based on the coordination of government and private reports.
• Analyze the state of Australia's copper industry in the early 1940s based on the compiled review.
• Research the administrative history of mineral resource committees based on the described meeting and report assembly process.

Strengths

• Report is based on a coordinated compilation of existing government and private documents.
• Provides a specific historical context with a committee meeting date of 1st August 1941.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Compilation and review of existing government and private reports by a technical secretary.

Time Range

Circa 1941

Freshness

Last updated 2026 05 06 08:53:16.862055; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia