Downloads

• Spreadsheets
  • Operating Mines
  • New Mining Infrastructure Projects
  • Mineral Processing Centres
  • Ports
• Google Earth
  • Mines Atlas Data Files
  • Opening KML and KMZ files in Google Earth

The following spreadsheets are a flattened version of the data available in the Mines Atlas mapping application.

The coverage contains data such as locations, mine names, commodity and weblinks. The information was sourced from Geoscience Australia's OZMIN database.

• Download the Operating Mines dataset as a spreadsheet.

The coverage contains locations and other data such as weblinks, company names, capital expenditure and size of operation. The information regarding the major new mining projects was obtained fom a search of the web.

• Download the Major New Mining Projects dataset as a spreadsheet.

The Mineral Processing Centre coverage contains locations and other data such as centre type, resource/commodity processed, weblinks, company names and general locations. Only the major processing centres were included not the minesite pre-processing plants.

• Download the Mineral Processing Plants dataset as a spreadsheet.

The Ports coverage contains locations and other data such as weblinks commodities, tonnage of imports and exports and company names. The information regarding the ports was obtained fom a search of the WWW with the most informative site and organisation being the Association of Australian Ports and Marine Authorities (AAPMA). South Australia and Queensland also have state port authorities (Flinders Ports, SA; Ports Corporation of Queensland) which also have valuable information.

• Download the Ports dataset as a spreadsheet.

The following files can be opened and viewed in Google Earth:

1. Operating Mines
2. Processing Centres

The History of Australia's Minerals Industry is also available for viewing in Google Earth. To view that, please visit the History page.

To view Mines Atlas data in Google Earth, download the files to your desktop, and then open them in Google Earth. If you're not sure how to do this, follow these steps:

1. Right click on the links to the file you want to view and select 'Save target as' or 'Save link as' and save the file to your computer.
2. Open Google Earth, then go 'File' > 'Open' and navigate to the directory you saved the KML file and select the file.

If you do not already have Google Earth installed, it is free for educational/home users to download.