NSW Opal Prospecting Areas

Identifies Opal Prospecting Areas for the State of NSW as defined by Part 10, Division 1, Section 220 of the Mining Act 1992 No. 29.

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Date (Publication)
2020-08-01
Edition
1
Purpose
Identifies Opal Prospecting Areas for the State of NSW as defined by Part 10, Division 1, Section 220 of the Mining Act 1992 No. 29: (1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute any prescribed land as an opal prospecting area and may, by the same or a subsequent order so published, name the area and fix its boundaries.
Status
On going

Point of contact

Mining, Exploration and Geoscience - Email Manager Small Scale Titles
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Boundaries
  • Geoscientific information

Temporal extent

Time period
1993-01-01
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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (Place)
  • New South Wales
Keywords (Theme)
  • BOUNDARIES-Administrative
  • GEOSCIENCE-Mining
  • GEOSCIENCE-Small scale mines,
  • GEOSCIENCE-Opal
  • BOUNDARIES – Opal Prospecting Area

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Use constraints
License
Other constraints
This data is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Attribute Department of Regional NSW in publications using this data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • ESRI shapefile

Resource lineage

Statement
Digitised from satellite imagery and gazetted reference maps.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
Coordinate System: Geographic Angular Unit: Degree Prime Meridian: Greenwich (0.0) Datum: D_GDA_1994 Spheroid: GRS_1980

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/d12b1fa7-bba1-4b86-b273-2b18f4121bfd

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Custodian

Mining, Exploration and Geoscience - Email Manager Small Scale Titles
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.geoscience.nsw.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d12b1fa7-bba1-4b86-b273-2b18f4121bfd

Date info (Revision)
2021-09-29T10:59:38
Date info (Creation)
2021-02-19T13:54:24

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Edition
1.0
 
 

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Spatial extent

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W


Keywords

BOUNDARIES – Opal Prospecting Area BOUNDARIES-Administrative GEOSCIENCE-Mining GEOSCIENCE-Opal GEOSCIENCE-Small scale mines,

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