NORTHERN TERRITORY

WESTERN AUSTRALIAQUEENSLAND

NEW SOUTH WALES

VICTORIA

TASMANIA

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

INDONESIA PAPUA NEWGUINEA

TORRES STRAIT

CORAL SEA

Great

Reef

Barrier

Gulf

Carpentaria

TASMANSEA

BASS STRAIT

Great Australian Bight

INDIAN

OCEAN

TIMOR SEA

JosephBonaparte

Gulfof

2000m

200m

1000m

200m

2000m

1000m

200m

200m

1000m2000m

8o120o 132o 144o

8o

16o

24o

32o

40o

108o 120o 132o 144o 156o

40o

32o

24o

16o

Mackay

Townsville

CairnsNormanton

Alice Springs

Mount Isa

Kalgoorlie-Boulder

PERTH

Albany

Esperance

Carnarvon

Geraldton

Port Hedland

Broome

DARWIN

Oodnadatta

Ceduna

ADELAIDE

Mildura

Warrnambool

HOBART

SYDNEYWollongong

Newcastle

Bourke

TamworthPort Macquarie

Grafton

BRISBANE

Longreach

Gladstone

Etna

Buka

Walcha

Naendip

Mount Rove

McLeans

Mangano

Kanyaka

Hoskins

Woocalla

Overhang

Muttabee

Mucketty

EregundaBungoola

Peak Hill

Mount Miller

Heathcote

Nimingarra

Mount Chester

Mount Tara

Dial Range

Ripon Hills

Mulga Downs

Masterton 2

Bootu Creek

Yanneri Pool

Yackandandah

Scrubby Hill

Mudderwearie

Larrads Hill

Far Northern

Woodie Woodie

Auckland Hill

Arrowie GorgeStone Hut Well

Nicholas Downs

Martins Well 2Martins Well 1

Ketchowla Well

Groote Eylandt

Hamersley Gorge

Coppermine Creek

South Rosie Creek

East Depot Springs

Laverton - Mount Lucky

Horseshoe

Bendleby

Bee HillAnt Hill

Mount Fraser

Meecharra

Sunday Hill

Mount Arden

Skull Springs

Renner Springs

Yanyarrie Station

Enacheddong Creek

Boolcunda

Mount Nicholas

Geological regions boundary, broken where subdivided

LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC PROJECTIONCentral Meridian: 134oE Standard Parallels: 18oS, 36oS

Geocentric Datum of Australia

SCALE 1:10 000 0000 100 200 300 400 500 Kilometres

Compiled by: M.B. Huleatt, M.G. Sexton, S. Jaireth Cartography by G.A. Young © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2010 This material is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence This work is copyright. Apart from any fair dealings for the purposes of study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without permission. Inquiries should be directed to the Communication Unit, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra City, ACT, 2601, Australia Geoscience Australia 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 complete. THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD NOT RELY SOLELY ON THIS INFORMATION WHEN MAKING A COMMERCIAL DECISION Published by Geoscience Australia, Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism, Canberra, Australia. Issued under the authority of the Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism Copies of this map may be downloaded from the Geoscience Australia website at: http://www.ga.gov.au This map is based on information compiled from publicly available sources on some 60 Australian manganese deposits, including world-class and large deposits. Compilation of data is ongoing Deposit size is the total tonnage of manganese that is or was in a deposit as estimated by Geoscience Australia. It was derived by summing the aggregate production from a deposit and the current or remaining resources in that deposit Regional resources are the aggregate of resources in deposits occurring in the region. Regions defined here are based on Geoscience Australia’s Georegions dataset. Subdivisions of the Lachlan Fold Belt and Yilgarn Craton are based on data from published sources Location information used in this map is derived from Geoscience Australia's databases It is recommended that this map be referred to as: Huleatt, M.B., Sexton, M.G., Jaireth, S., 2010, Australian Manganese Resources (Sheet 1: Resources by region), December 2010 edition, 1:10 000 000 scale map, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia Geocat No 71337 ISBN: 978-1-921781-60-5

DECEMBER 2010 EDITION

CANBERRAACT

MELBOURNE

Number of deposits shown in brackets

Manganese occurrencesMineral deposits with up to 1 000 tonnes of manganese (14) Mineral deposits with 1 000 to 10 000 tonnes of manganese (14)Mineral deposits with 10 000 to 100 000 tonnes of manganese (17)Mineral deposits with 100 000 to 250 000 tonnes of manganese (2) Mineral deposits with 250 000 to 1 million tonnes of manganese (5) Mineral deposits with 1 million to 10 million tonnes of manganese (5)

Mineral deposits with 10 million to 50 million tonnes of manganese (2)

Mineral deposits with >50 million tonnes of manganese (1)

Geological regions with up to 1 000 tonnes of manganeseGeological regions with 1 000 to 10 000 tonnes of manganeseGeological regions with 10 000 to 100 000 tonnes of manganeseGeological regions with 100 000 to 1 million tonnes of manganeseGeological regions with 1 to 10 million tonnes of manganeseGeological regions with 10 to 50 million tonnes of manganeseGeological regions with >50 million tonnes of manganese

Global resources of manganese by region(Colours indicate age of resources in each region;

major regions are shown in inset map)

Carpentaria69.1%

(C)

'Other Regions' include regions with less than 1% of global resources:NabberuBremerFraserCoenStuartMount IsaArrowie

Eastern GoldfieldsAdelaideEastern LachlanProserpineSouthern CrossNew EnglandDundas

Hamersley22.2%

(A)

Tennant Creek 5.1% (D)Bangemall 2.3% (B)

Other 0.4%

Major regions

A

B

C

D

Global resources of manganese deposits by age

Mesozoic69.8%

Proterozoic5.7% AUSTRALIAN

MANGANESE RESOURCES(Sheet 1: Resources by region)

Cenozoic24.4%

McArthur 0.8% (**)

** South Rosie Creek deposit is part of Mesozoic Carpentaria Basin

Manganese ore (million tonnes) 1 10 100 1 000 10 000 100 000 1 000 000 10 000 000 100 000 000 1 000 000 000

Mang

anes

e grad

e (%)

1

10

100

SedimentarySupergene-infiltrationSkarnMetamorphic/metamorphosedSupergene-residualVolcanogenicUnknown

10 mt Mn100 mt Mn

1 mt Mn

100 000 t Mn

10 000 t Mn

1 000 t Mn

100 t Mn

10 t Mn

1 t Mn

.1 t Mn

Groote Eylandt

Woodie Woodie

Ripon Hills

Mount Rove

Bootu Creek

Yanneri Pool

South Rosie CreekMulga Downs

Paleozoic and unknown0.1%