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NSW Statewide Minerals
Resource Audit
Cameron Ricketts
Manager - Minerals & Land Use
“Who’s on First?”
Early land use planning around
mines and quarries was based
on existing use rights and often
led to situations where no-one
wins in the long run
Why is Geological Survey involved in Land use?
Comprehensive, up to date information on the location of mineral and extractive
resources is essential to sound land use planning. Providing such information has
been an important role of Mineral Resources since the 1960s.
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Sydney REP 9 (1986, 1995)
Hunter REP (1989)
Illawarra REP 1(1986)
Section 117 (2) Direction 1.3
Mining, Petroleum Production & Extractive Industries
• Purpose is to prevent unnecessary sterilisation of resources
due to inappropriate zoning.
• Issued in 1994 - amended 2005 & 2007.
• Requires councils to consult T&I if proposed LEPs would
prohibit or restrict development of mineral, petroleum and
extractive resources of state and regional significance
identified by Trade & Investment.
Notification
Status 1998
• If T&I objects to an LEP, council
must provide justification for
proceeding to Department of
Planning & Infrastructure.
• “Section 117” mapping program
initiated by Mineral Resources
Branch to provide councils with
resource data.
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• NSW Planning Reforms 2004
• SEPP Mining Petroleum Production & Extractive Industries –
requiring councils to consider impacts “in the vicinity of”
extractive operations and resources.
• Standard Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) for all Councils by 2011
• 300+ zones into 25 new zones
• Resource Audit commenced 2007 to provide data on mineral &
extractive resources to councils to inform new LEPs.
• Data will meet requirements of S117 Direction 1.3 & Mining SEPP.
• Will update data for LGAs where S117 data previously provided as
well as provide data for those LGAs not previously covered.
• To be completed by mid 2011…. 153 Local Councils
Department of
Planning
Input to
Regional Land
Use Strategies
Local advice on
Known resources
and potential
resource areas
Assess LEP zoning
Maps and provisions
for resource issues
Port Stephens Example
Proposed Port
Stephens to
Watagans
Reserve
Proposed
Kaolin Mine
Port Stephens
Marine Park
F3 to Raymond
Terrace
Upgrade
Stockton Dunes
Regional Park,
NP, NT Claim
Most Identified resource areas were threatened in 2006-7
Council
rezoning of
Diemars Quarry
Types of resource areas
Somersby Plateau
Northern Potential
Sand Resource
Martin’s Creek Quarry
Somersby Plateau
Southern Potential
Sand Resource
1000m blasting
500m non blasting
Resource Audit Flowchart:
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Acquire data and geodatabase
Plot data in GIS, allocate some areas
Field check where required
Assign identified/potential resource areas
Write report using template
Peer review of shapes and justification
Amend GIS and report as required
Present report and maps to council
Sample report
Excluding energy
resources
123 councils
later
Commodity
Group
All
Operating
Construction
Materials
Metallic
Minerals
Industrial
Minerals
Gemstones
No of sites
Identified
2,158
1,718
Area (Ha) No. Potential
Areas
259,034
258
133,791
Area (Ha) % of total
No.
7,677,060 100%
80%
1,651
33,459
75
83,808
77%
211
62,842
107
2,350,869
10%
246
50
111,978
50,756
67
9
5,040,583
313,778
11%
2%
Identified Resource Areas
Number of Sites by Commodity Group
Identified Resource Areas
Area of Sites by Commodity Group
Gemstones
Construction
Materials
Industrial
Minerals
Metallic
Minerals
Gemstones
Construction
Materials
Metallic
Minerals
Industrial
Minerals
Cemex Griffith Quarry - basalt
Kaniva pit (Narrandera) –
siliceous metasediment
Bogolong Hills pit (Narrandera) –
sandstone and conglomerate
South Broken Hill Quarry (Broken Hill) –
quartzo-feldspathic gneiss
Bob Brown, Jeff Brownlow, Jim Stroud and Nancy Vickery with admin and GIS
support from Phil Kennedy. John Whitehouse, Gary Burton, Iain Paterson, Simon
Francis, Cressida Gilmore, Cameron Ricketts and John Lowe.
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Top LGAs by area covered by identified resources
LGA
Wentworth
Walgett
Balranald
Unincorporated
Cobar
Broken Hill
Inverell
Cabonne
Brewarrina
Wakool
Total Area (Ha) Comments
70,487.86
33,884.66
15,132.07
13,421.63
13,282.37
8,210.03
7,461.35
7,400.65
6,117.25
5,576.13
mineral sands
opals LR
mineral sands
mineral sands, alluvial gold and base metals
metallic deposits: Copper, lead and zinc, gold
Broken Hill deposit
Gemstones - sapphires
metallic deposits: Cadia, Copper Hill, Lewis Ponds,
Cargo, plus limestone
opals
mineral sands
What Next ?
• Provided to Dept of Planning & Infrastructure
(DP&I) for input to SRLUP
• DP&I to publish SRA on website – under EP&A
legislation
• Coal & petroleum resource supplement
• Presentations to Councils, planners
• Continual updating with new resource areas and
changes in details
• Develop online delivery – single point of truth
• Adding to metadata – resource estimates,
consent boundaries, deposit models, mine plans,
infrastructure, $ values
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Help us to help you
Information required:
Map showing surface projection of resource area
Details of operation and products
In-situ resource figures if not confidential
Relevant contact
Chinook Quarry (Moree Plains)
– coarse river gravel
Anna Bay – encroaching unstable
coastal dune
Hygeer sand pit (Corowa) – fossil dune
Camden Haven – dredging behind
sand ridge
Wilson pit (Jerilderie) – alluvial sand
Kables Sands pit (Lithgow) –
friable sandstone
Lachlan Valley Sands – alluvial sand
Funk’s pit (Greater Hume) – weathered granite
Mt Wood pit (Unincorporated) –
weathered Cretaceous sandstone
White Swamp pit (Moree Plains)
– sandy silt (“loam”)
Mitchell’s pit (Carathool) – ripped and
crushed siliceous sandstone
PGH quarry, Bathurst – Tertiary profile
Ginkgo HM Sand
(Wentworth)
Hematite
Magnetite
Broula Iron Mine – Cowra LGA
Ridgeway
Cadia Quarry
Cadia Hill
Little
Cadia
Cadia
Hill
Cadia
East
Cadia East