Australian Onshore and Offshore Borehole Locations for Geological Resource Assessment

Australian borehole data, including mineral drillholes, petroleum wells, and water bores, compiled by Geoscience Australia. The dataset is restricted to onshore and offshore Australian boreholes that support geological investigations. It was last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Map subsurface resource potential based on borehole locations and types.
• Support geological modeling and cross-section analysis based on borehole data.
• Assess regional groundwater or petroleum systems based on water and petroleum well data.

Strengths

• Data is defined according to the GeoSciML Borehole 3.0 standard.
• Focuses on boreholes with potential to support geological investigations and resource assessment.
• Covers both onshore and offshore Australian geography.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 14:05:09.649929; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (onshore and offshore)