NSW Preserved Fields (opal)

In 1994 the Lightning Ridge Mining Board determined that the title ‘Preserved Fields’ would be applied to older mining areas which would not be returned to their previous land use, adopting less strict rehabilitation standards.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2021-03-01
Edition
1
Purpose
Areas of opal prospecting designated as ‘preserved fields’ in order that their appearance be maintained for heritage and social reasons.
Status
Completed

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
1994-01-01
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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords (Place)
  • New South Wales
Keywords (Theme)
  • BOUNDARIES-Administrative
  • GEOSCIENCE-Mining
  • GEOSCIENCE-Opal

Resource constraints

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Copyright
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 ‘Map 1 – The Preserved Opal Fields and Permissive Occupancy 1985/19 of Walgett Shire’.
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/f6445eed-a3a9-4090-b553-201ab1a99f85

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/f6445eed-a3a9-4090-b553-201ab1a99f85

Date info (Revision)
2021-09-27T17:36:43
Date info (Creation)
2021-02-19T13:51:42

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Edition
1.0
 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

BOUNDARIES-Administrative GEOSCIENCE-Mining GEOSCIENCE-Opal

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