Spatial data set showing Mining Divisions within New South Wales. Each Mining Division has a Mining Registrar. A title is considered to be within the Mining Division in which the most northeasterly portion of the title lies.

All current applications for mineral and energy resource exploration, assessment and production titles.

The isotope geochemistry database contains geochronology and geological process data managed by the Geological Survey of NSW (GSNSW). Isotopic systems / techniques are U/Pb, K/Ar, Ar/Ar, Rb/Sr, Pb/Pb, Re/Os, Sm/Nd, Lu/Hf and stable sulfur, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. The database stores location and sample collection information, lithological description, analytical and interpretation information for geological samples in New South Wales. The database includes links to stratigraphic unit, mineral occurrence and drill hole data. Some fields are controlled by look up tables.

Gravity gradiometry data has been reported to the NSW government and released under the requirements of the NSW Mining Act 1992. Contained within this vector file is the location of surveys and acquisition parameters.

Marine protected areas are parts of the NSW marine estate managed to conserve marine biodiversity and support marine science, recreation and education. The NSW system of marine protected areas includes: marine parks – six multiple use marine parks cover around one third (approximately 345,000 hectares) of the NSW marine estate aquatic reserves – 12 aquatic reserves cover around 2,000 hectares of the NSW marine estate national parks and nature reserves – include around 20,000 hectares of estuarine and oceanic habitats.

Survey Pegs used to mark out Mineral Claims in the Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs areas of NSW, Australia.

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 for the affected mineral group(s) in the area without Ministerial consent. Reporting and renewal requirements for existing mineral titles within each MAA are unaffected.

Many airborne magnetic/radioelement surveys have been acquired by the NSW government through the NSW Exploration, Discovery 2000 and New Frontiers Initiative funding. Others have been acquired jointly with Geoscience Australia (formerly AGSO). Contained within this vector file are details on each of the surveys and some acquisition parameters, which will help locate survey data stored digitally. Not all of these surveys have both radioelement and magnetic data.Some project areas have grids that have been merged from private exploration company data (that are open file). These are attributed as "private" exploration company data in the shapefile. The information contained in this publication is based on knowledge and understanding at time of writing (December 2016). Because of advances in knowledge, users are reminded of the need to ensure that information upon which they rely is up to date. The information contained in this publication may not be or may no longer be aligned with government policy nor does the publication indicate or imply government policy.

The petrophysics database contains petrophysical (rock physical properties) data managed and acquired by the Geological Survey of NSW (GSNSW). Petrophysical properties recorded are: magnetic susceptibility (volume normalised); principal axes and degree of anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility; natural remanent magnetisation (NRM) intensity and direction; remanent magnetisation component directions; Koenigsberger (Q) ratio; saturated density; dry density; grain density; porosity. Vector and tensor magnetic properties (remanence and AMS) are oriented to in-situ (geographic) and fold-corrected (stratigraphic) coordinates where sample and bedding orientation are known.

Operating mines in NSW is a small subset of sites taken from the NSW Mineral Occurrence dataset which represent an active mining operation. An operation is a deposit or group of deposits of similar style within the same district, operated by a common operator. Generally an operation will have a single common processing plant. An operation is considered to be ‘operating’ (active mine) if ore is being produced and a royalty paid from at least one of its deposits. The Operating status of each deposit is maintained in the MetIndex database and based on the following definition. Operating Mines Layer: For the purpose of an operating mines layer for metallic minerals, an operating mine is a mining operation where production is on a continuous or intermittent basis. Operation: An Operation is a deposit or a group of deposits of a similar style within the same district, operated by a common operator. Generally an operation will have a single common processing plant. Operating status: Operating status is continuous where there is reported production at least twice in a 12 month period, operating mines with less reported production are classified as intermittent.