NSW Geoscience Metadata
NSW Opal Prospecting Blocks
Identifies Opal Prospecting Blocks in the State of NSW as defined by Part 10, Division 1, Section 224 of the Mining Act 1992 No. 29.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-08-01
- Edition
- 1
- Purpose
- Identifies Opal Prospecting Blocks in the State of NSW as defined by Part 10, Division 1, Section 224 of the Mining Act 1992 No. 29: (1) The Minister may, by order published in the Gazette, constitute any land within an opal prospecting area as an opal prospecting block. (2) Such an order: (a) may give the opal prospecting block a designation and fix its boundaries, and (b) may specify any periods during which an opal prospecting licence may not be granted in respect of the opal prospecting block. (3) An opal prospecting block may not exceed: (a) an area of 500 hectares, or (b) such smaller area as is prescribed by the regulations.
- Status
- On going
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Geoscientific information
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1993-01-01
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords (Place)
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- New South Wales
- Keywords (Theme)
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- BOUNDARIES-Administrative
- GEOSCIENCE-Mining
- GEOSCIENCE-Small scale mines,
- GEOSCIENCE-Opal
- BOUNDARIES – Opal Prospecting Block
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- 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
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- 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/270aa141-e832-4993-afa3-9c08c7c42751
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Metadata linkage
- https://geonetwork.geoscience.nsw.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/270aa141-e832-4993-afa3-9c08c7c42751
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-09-29T11:53:47
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-02-19T13:54:07
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Edition
- 1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Associated resources
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