australian gold resources

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AUSTRALIAN
GOLD RESOURCES
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LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC PROJECTION
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Mineral deposits with 1 to 10 tonnes of gold
Selwyn System
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Gold occurrence
Tw in Hills
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QUEENSLAN
Mackay
Mineral deposits with 10 to 100 tonnes of gold
Mineral deposits with 100 to 1000 tonnes of gold
Alice Springs
Paulsens
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Mineral deposits with >1000 tonnes of gold
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Geological regions with 100 to 1000 tonnes of gold
Oodnadatta
Big Bell
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Compiled by: M.B. Huleatt, S. Jaireth, and M. Ratajkoski
Grafton
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Cartography by V.A. Cooper, G. A. Young
Hillgrove
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Geological regions boundary, broken where subdivided
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Bourke
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Geological regions with >1000 tonnes of gold
Prominent Hill
Olympic Dam
Kalgoorlie
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Geological regions with 1 to 10 tonnes of gold
Geological regions with 10 to 100 tonnes of gold
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Meekatha
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Geological regions with up to 1 tonne of gold
Gladstone
RALIA
WESTERN AUST
Bunbury
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Cowal
Mildur a
Great Australian Bight
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This map is based on information compiled from publicly available
sources on some 400 Australian gold deposits, including world-class
and large deposits. Compilation of data is ongoing
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Deposit size is the total tonnage of gold that is or was in a deposit as
estimated by Geoscience Australia. It was derived by summing the
aggregate production from a deposit and the current or remaining
resources in that deposit
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Regional resources are the aggregate of resources in deposits
occurring in the region. Regions defined here are based on Geoscience
Australia’s Georegions arcinfo coverage. Subdivisions of the Lachlan
Fold Belt and Yilgarn Craton are based on data from published sources
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Location information used in this map is derived from Geoscience
Australia's Ozmin database for deposits and Minloc for gold occurrences
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Map, October 2005 edition, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
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