Geoscience data resources

Data is available in a variety of ways including database exports and as individual GIS data layers from MinView. Some project data is also supplied as DVD packages.

Databases accessible through MinView

• Drillholes
• Geochemistry
• Field observations
• Geochronology
• Mineral occurrences
• Palaeontology
• Petrology
• Seamless geology (Refer to NSW Seamless Geology Project)

Geoscience data packages

Geoscience data packages are compiled with detailed geology, geophysics, mineral occurrences and additional datasets onto disc. The main aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of essential geoscience information for a region.

New data packages

• Central Lachlan Orogen Mineral Potential Data Package
• Eastern Lachlan Orogen Mineral Potential Data Package
• Southern New England Orogen Mineral Potential Data Package
• NSW Seamless Geology Data Package V2
• Geothermal Prospectivity of New South Wales Data Package:
  • Murray–Darling Oaklands basin system
  • Sydney–Gunnedah Bowen basin system
  • Clarence–Moreton Basin

  • New South Wales wide data

    Note: data can be viewed in MinView

NSW coastal Quaternary geology data package

• NSW Coastal Quaternary Geology Data Package

Related map and publication

• Bulletin 34: Coastal Quaternary geology – north and south coast of New South Wales
• Coastal Quaternary mapping of the southern Hunter to northern Illawarra regions, New South Wales (QN146)

Regional geoscience data packages

• Brigalow Belt South Bioregion Geoscience Data Package
• Curnamona and Delamerian-Thomson mineral potential data package
• Eastern Lachlan Orogen Geoscience Database
• Eastern Lachlan Orogen Mineral Potential Data Package
• Nandewar Regional Assessment Geoscience Data Package
• Northern Parkes Geoscience Database
• Peel Geoscience Database
• Peel South Geoscience Database
• Southern New England Orogen Mineral Potential Data Package

Some of the above data packages can also be purchased online from ShopRegional.

For assistance with orders, please contact the Geoscience Product Officer (email : geoscience.products@geoscience.nsw.gov.au, phone: 02 4063 6653)

For further information

Contact Geophysics Products