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NSW Geoscience Metadata (Mining Exploration and Geoscience | Regional NSW)
Mining Exploration and Geoscience | Regional NSW
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This is the coal subset of the NSW drilling dataset available from Geoscientific Data Warehouse. The drillhole data has been compiled over time from various sources including mineral exploration reports and departmental records.It provides drill collar information for coal drillholes and associated data including classification of drilling purpose, drill type, licencee/driller information, date the hole was drilled, depth of hole drilled and references. This data is part of the New South Wales Geoscientific Data Warehouse (NSW GDW) series.
This layer shows a depth slice from a 3D resistivity model of the crust derived from an inversion of the AusLAMP NSW long period MT data.
Time-series records of the magnetic and electric fields measured at the AusLAMP MT sites were QA\QCed, pre-processed and transformed into the frequency domain (Kyi et al, 2020). Data were then inverted to a 3D resistivity voxet model of the crust using the ModEM 3D code on the National Computing Infrastructure supercomputer (Kirkby et al, submitted). The 3D resistivity model was sliced to display the voxet cells at 10 km depth in plan-view. The cells were coloured according to their resistivity value to create the image. Kirkby, A. L., Musgrave, R., Czarnota, K., Doublier, M., Kyi, D., Duan, J. and Cayley, R., (submitted). The resistivity structure of the Tasmanides, southeastern Australia, from AusLAMP magnetotelluric data and implications for tectonic evolution. Submitted to Tectonophysics. Kyi, D., Duan, J., Kirkby, A. and Stolz, N., 2020. Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP): New South Wales; Data Release Report (Phase One). Record 2020/11 Geoscience Australia, Canberra.
Coal mining prohibited by State Environmental Planning Policy
The NSW Government has clearly identified areas where higher priority land uses mean that coal mining cannot occur. For the State Significant Development application SSD5156 - Rocky Hill area, the prohibition will apply to open cut mining only. Otherwise, within this area coal mining will be prohibited by State Environmental Planning Policy.