NORTHERN TERRITORY WESTERN AUSTRALIA QUEENSLAND NEW SOUTH WALES VICTORIA TASMANIA SOUTH AUSTRALIA INDONESIA PAPUA NEW GUINEA TORRES STRAIT CORAL SEA Great Reef Barrier Gulf Carpentaria TASMAN SEA BASS STRAIT Great Australian Bight INDIAN OCEAN TIMOR SEA Joseph Bonaparte Gulf of 2000m 200m 1000m 200m 2000m 1000m 200m 200m 1000m 2000m 8 o 120 o 132 o 144 o 8 o 16 o 24 o 32 o 40 o 108 o 120 o 132 o 144 o 156 o 40 o 32 o 24 o 16 o Mackay Townsville Cairns Normanton Alice Springs Mount Isa Kalgoorlie-Boulder PERTH Albany Esperance Carnarvon Geraldton Port Hedland Broome DARWIN Oodnadatta Ceduna ADELAIDE Mildura Warrnambool HOBART SYDNEY Wollongong Newcastle Bourke Tamworth Port Macquarie Grafton BRISBANE Longreach Gladstone Etna Buka Walcha Naendip Mount Rove McLeans Mangano Kanyaka Hoskins Woocalla Overhang Muttabee Mucketty Eregunda Bungoola 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 Gorge Stone Hut Well Nicholas Downs Martins Well 2 Martins Well 1 Ketchowla Well Groote Eylandt Hamersley Gorge Coppermine Creek South Rosie Creek East Depot Springs Laverton - Mount Lucky Horseshoe Bendleby Bee Hill Ant 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 PROJECTION Central Meridian: 134 o E Standard Parallels: 18 o S, 36 o S Geocentric Datum of Australia SCALE 1:10 000 000 0 100 200 300 400 500 Kilometres Compiled by: M.B. 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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 CANBERRA ACT MELBOURNE Number of deposits shown in brackets Manganese occurrences Mineral 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 manganese Geological regions with 1 000 to 10 000 tonnes of manganese Geological regions with 10 000 to 100 000 tonnes of manganese Geological regions with 100 000 to 1 million tonnes of manganese Geological regions with 1 to 10 million tonnes of manganese Geological regions with 10 to 50 million tonnes of manganese Geological 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) Carpentaria 69.1% (C) 'Other Regions' include regions with less than 1% of global resources: Nabberu Bremer Fraser Coen Stuart Mount Isa Arrowie Eastern Goldfields Adelaide Eastern Lachlan Proserpine Southern Cross New England Dundas Hamersley 22.2% (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 Mesozoic 69.8% Proterozoic 5.7% AUSTRALIAN MANGANESE RESOURCES (Sheet 1: Resources by region) Cenozoic 24.4% 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 Manganese grade (%) 1 10 100 Sedimentary Supergene-infiltration Skarn Metamorphic/metamorphosed Supergene-residual Volcanogenic Unknown 10 mt M n 100 mt M n 1 mt M n 100 000 t M n 10 000 t M n 1 000 t M n 100 t M n 10 t M n 1 t M n . 1 t M n Groote Eylandt Woodie Woodie Ripon Hills Mount Rove Bootu Creek Yanneri Pool South Rosie Creek Mulga Downs Paleozoic and unknown 0.1%