The document provides an overview of new and updated geoscience information products from NSW Resources & Energy, including 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 geology maps, metallogenic maps and reports, commodity factsheets, and quarterly notes on recent research. It also summarizes enhancements to online geoscience information systems, such as new search tools and datasets on the Geoscience Data Warehouse and the Geoscience Information Gateway project to further improve access to geoscience data.

1. Geoscience Information
Update 2015
Trisha Moriarty
A/Manager Geoscience Information

2. Geoscience Information Update
 New mapping and data related products
 New publications
 Access by Geoscience Information systems
 Geoscience Data Warehouse enhancements
 new search tool
 Subscriptions services
2014-2015 Highlights
Data is the currency of geoscientific exploration
Gateway to geoscientific
data for New South Wales

3. Title: Tibooburra 1:100 000 Geology (1)
Title: Wonnaminta 1:100 000 Geology (2)
Title: Gosford Lake Macquarie 1:100 000 Geology (3)
Maps and Publications
1:100 000 Geology Maps
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4. Broken Hill Special 1:250 000 metallogenic map
QNote 143 Refined peak and retrograde metamorphic isograds for the Broken Hill and Euriowie blocks, NSW)
Authors: Fitzherbert. A concise geological history of the Broken Hill region. Authors: Fitzherbert & Downes
Release Date: May 2015
GS Report GS2015/0001
Development of the Broken Hill 1:250 000
Metallogenic Sheet (2015) - concepts and
methodology. Downes & Fitzherbert
Maps and Publications
Metallogenic Maps & Explanatory Notes

5. Maps and Publications
Warwick Tweed Heads 1:250 000 Metallogenic map
Warwick Tweed Heads 1:250 000 metallogenic study (Explanatory Notes)
Release Date: May 2015
Metallogenic Maps & Explanatory Notes

6. Petroleum/energy projects & exploration
highlights map.
Biannual updates
Advanced mineral projects & exploration
highlights map
Biannual updates
Project & Exploration Highlight maps
Maps and Publications

7. Project & Exploration Highlight maps
Maps and Publications
Petroleum/energy projects & exploration
highlights map.
Biannual updates
Advanced mineral projects & exploration
highlights map

8. Quarterly Notes
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-explorers/geoscience-information/products-and-data/books-and-
brochures/quarterly-notes
Subscribe to QNotes: www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/about-us/subscribe
Title: QN141 New geochronological &isotopic constraints on granitoid-
related gold mineralisation near Majors Creek, NSW
Authors: Forster, Downes & Blevin
Release Date: August 2014
Title: QN142 Interpreting the Oaklands Basin: morphology, stratigraphy
and petroleum potential
Authors: Davidson & Fahey
Release Date: December 2014
Title: QN143 (1) Refined peak and retrograde metamorphic isograds
for the Broken Hill & Euriowie blocks, NSW
Authors: Fitzherbert
Release Date: May 2015
Title: QN143 (2) A concise geological history of the Broken Hill region
Authors: Fitzherbert & Downes
Release Date: May 2015
Maps and Publications

9. Technical Reports
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/digs
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-explorers/geoscience-information/products-and-data/technical-reports
Title: Portable X-ray fluorescence geochemical analyses of Quaternary deposits of the Angledool 1:250 000
map sheet area
Author: Burton, G R
Title: Interpretation of whole rock geochemical data for samples of mafic schists from the Tottenham area,
Central New South Wales
Author: Burton
Title: Report on Fossils Collected from the Dash Prospect , NW of Copper Hill
Authors: Percival , I G
Title: Development of the 1:250 000 scale Broken Hill
Special Metallogenic map, concepts and methodology
Author: Downes, P M , Fitzherbert, J A,
Maps and Publications

10. Map brochures
Geology of the Broken Hill region
Release Date: May 2015
Geology of the Lower Hunter
Release Date: July 2014
Geology of the Newcastle Coastline
Release Date: July 2014
Maps and Publications

11. Commodity Factsheets
 Antimony
 Bauxite
 Copper
 Gold
 Iron
 Lead-Zinc
 Magnesite
 Mineral Sands
 Silica
 Silver
 Tin
Maps and Publications
http://www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-
explorers/geoscience-information/nsw-geology-overview/commodities

12. Posters & Presentations
Title: Coastal Quaternary geology mapping: filling the Newcastle to
Wollongong gap
Title: Keys to understanding the Central Lachlan Orogen: the Nymagee
Mineral Systems (MinSys) study
Title: Constraining thickness of transported cover and basement geology:
Tasmanides undercover in NSW
Title: Exhalative horizons and volcanic-associated massive sulphide (VMS)
deposits in the Ordovician Girilambone Group, NSW
Title: Mapping Nyngan-Bourke-Cobar a regional approach
Title :Morphology, stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the Oaklands
Basin
Maps and Publications
Example: recent Posters
Presentations generally published as pdf (selected available as video recordings)

13. Maps for mobile devices
Statewide Geology map – Version 2
 Interactive MBTiles format (Mapbox sqlite) created using Tilemill
 106 rock units (simplified) 1:1.5 million scale
 ASTER GDEM incorporated
 Simplified default version 162mb
 optional extra download 489mb, extra zoom level
 Android - Locus Maps, just download new file
 iOS Apple – new NSW Geology Phone Maps,
auto downloads
Statewide Geology map & Geophysical images, Standard series
maps – Version 1
 Raster/flatten images Rmaps format (sqlite) created Mobile Atlas Creator
 Geology legend at high level zoom, Std series part of map surrounds
 Recommend free existing apps (Galieo, Locus Maps)
 Over 360 maps available
Concept: Offline maps, stored on phone, accessible anywhere
www.geoscience.nsw.gov.au/phonemaps
Version 2 – Interactive Geology

14. New Geoscience data packages
NSW Seamless Geology Stage 1 Release (Zone 56)
http://www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-explorers/geoscience-information/products-and-
data/geoscience-data-resources/geoscience-data-packages/data/seamless-geology-data-package-zone-56
Will be available online and as a mobile map
Download available
Zipped - ESRI & MapInfo

15. Mineral Explorers Directory 2015
DVD/USB
New Geoscience data packages

16. www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/minview www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/geoproducts
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/digs
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/gdw
Geoscience Information Systems

17. www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/minview www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/geoproducts
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/digs
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/gdw
Geoscience Information Systems

18. www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/minview www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/geoproducts
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/digs
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/gdw
Geoscience Information Systems

19. www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/minview www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/geoproducts
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/digs
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/gdw
Geoscience Information Systems

20. www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/minview www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/geoproducts
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/digs
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/gdw
Geoscience Information Systems

21. Geoscientific Data Warehouse
Improve search features
 Search for drillcore in libraries
Improvement to underlying
data models
 Assay data
Improve metadata
 Drilling and Assay data sets
Ongoing Data validation
 Drilling and assay data
New Mobile Maps support site
 Search by locality
New data sets
 Metal commodities
 Soils and landforms (CSIRO)
 Topographic & cadastral data (LPI)
 Imagery (LPI)
Enhancements

22. Metal Commodities
Geoscientific Data Warehouse

23. Soil & Landscape Grid of Australia – CSIRO (Web Map Services)
Geoscientific Data Warehouse

24. Soil & Landscape Grid of Australia – CSIRO (Web Map Services)
Geoscientific Data Warehouse

25. Soil & Landscape Grid of Australia – CSIRO (Web Map Services)
Geoscientific Data Warehouse

26. Imagery – NSW Globe LPI (Web Map Services)
Geoscientific Data Warehouse

27. No development in MinView –
To be replaced as part of Geoscience
Information Gateway project
Geoscience Information Gateway project

28. System integration & enhancement
 Document archive
 Aspatial database
 no GIS files
 no georeferenced raster files
 Text-based search only
 Metadata based search only
 Exact string search
 And search operator only
 Flexible Spatial search
 Filter options
 Disparate storage mechanisms
 Separate metadata and products
 Metadata based search only
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

29. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project
System integration & enhancement

30. New DIGS
Key enhancements
 Single search box – google type search experience
 Search across datasets (all collections at once)
 Basic and Advance Search and Spatial search options
 All reports now spatialised - available for spatial search, display extents/coverage
 Content of report searchable – OCR
 And/Or search operators
 Predictive text
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

31. New DIGS
Key enhancements
 Single search box – google type search
 Search across datasets (all collections at once)
 Basic and Advance and Spatial search options
 All reports now spatialised - available for spatial search, display extents/coverage
 Content of report searchable – OCR
 And/Or search operators
 Predictive text
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

32. New DIGS
Key enhancements
 Single search box – google type search
 Search across datasets (all collections at once)
 Basic and Advance and Spatial search options
 All reports now spatialised - available for spatial search, display extents/coverage
 Content of report searchable – OCR – not just metadata
 And/Or search operators
 Predictive text
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

33. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

34. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

35. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

36. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

37. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

38. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

39. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

40. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

41. New DIGS
Geoscience Information Gateway Project

42. Keeping Informed
Project Updates (Website)
Subscriptions
GS News (Website)
New Products (Website)
Events (Website)
http://www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-explorers/geoscience-information/projects
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/miners-and-explorers/geoscience-information/projects

43. Project Updates (Website)
Subscriptions
GS News (Website)
New Products (Website)
Events (Website)
Keeping Informed
Subscribe to QNotes: ontheoutcrop@trade.nsw.gov.au
www.resourcesandenergy.nsw.gov.au/about-us/subscribe