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The Governor of NSW can create Mineral Allocation Areas (MAAs) for any mineral group under the Mining Regulation 2016. These areas prevent new exploration licence applications...

Fossicking is the small scale search for and collection of minerals, gemstones or mineral bearing material from the surface (or by digging from the surface) with handheld...

Locations of over 31,000 types of minerals throughout NSW, including coal, gas, gemstones and construction materials. This spatial dataset is a derivative product of the New...

Locations of drillholes for minerals (substances such as quartz and gemstones) in NSW and associated information such as depth and date drilled. This is the mineral subset of...

Information about and locations of wells drilled to explore for and assess geology and/or potential petroleum resources. The petroleum drillholes dataset stores information...

Locations of coal drillholes in NSW and associated information including depth, purpose and date drilled. This is the coal subset of the NSW drilling dataset available from...

Information about and locations of wells drilled to explore for, assess or extract potential coal seam gas resources. The coal seam gas boreholes dataset stores information...

The drilling dataset contains the location and summary information of over 140,000 non-confidential drillholes related to the activities of the mineral, coal and petroleum...

This product represents a seamless GIS compilation of the best available vector geology data for New South Wales. The data has been organised into a series of layers, or time...

Ancillary Mining Areas (AMAs) are designated land zones used for infrastructure that supports mining operations—such as roads, dams, stockpiles, buildings, and water‑management...