Coal Fields in the Murray Basin, Southeastern Australia


ABARES has tried to make the information in this product as accurate as possible. However, it does not guarantee that the information is totally accurate or completed. Therefore, you should not rely solely on this information when making a commercial decision. TITLE: coal_p FULL NAME: Coal fields in the Murray Basin DESCRIPTION: Major occurrences of coal in the Murray Basin, south eastern Australia PURPOSE: Surface geological mapping of the Murray Basin for minerals and petroleum assessment, land and water management REFERENCE(S): Brown C.M. andamp; Stephenson, A.E. 1991 a Geology of the Murray Basin, south eastern Australia (1:1 000 000 scale map) Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra. Brown, C.M. andamp; Stephenson, A.E. 1991 a Geology of the Murray Basin. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Australia, Bulletin 235 IDENTIFICATION COMMENTS: Published by the Groundwater Branch, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics (now Geocience Australia) as a contribution to the joint Commonwealth-State Murray Basin Hydrogeological Project, a basin wide study which is being undertaken in collaboration with the geological surveys of South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, and with the New South Wales Department of Water Resources. Issued under the authority of the Minister of Primary Industries and Energy. Base map compiled from 1:1000 000 scale International map of the World Topographic series, supplied by AUSLIG (now Geoscience Australia a National mapping).

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Published (Metadata Record) 02/03/2026
Last updated 04/03/2026
Organisation Australian Federal Government
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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