Themes/Feature Articles

A Message from the Minister

From the Director-General

COVER FEATURE - NSW Mineral Exploration & Investment 2003 Conference

• Exploring and investing in NSW
• Exploration NSW � creating a premier geoscience framework for exploration
• Cadia Valley Operations � still further development potential
• CSA Mine � uncovering buried treasure
• Why Barrick is investing in NSW
• New mineral potential at Broken Hill
• New exploration breakthroughs at Broken Hill
• Protecting natural resources values in NSW
• Advancing petroleum and coal seam methane exploration in NSW

EXPLORATION NSW

• BHEI 2003: Curnamona Province � realising the potential
• New Lachlan Orogen maps unveiled at SMEDG meeting
• Publication of the Mineral Deposits of the Northern Broken Hill Block
• Release of the Hill End Trough geoscience database CD
• Tibooburra-Mt Arrowsmith geophysical- geological interpretation map
• Regolith mapping and landscape evolution models in gold exploration

MINERALS

• ELs granted to June 2003
• Summaries of terminated ELs to June 2003
• ELs Cancelled/Expired June 2003 (map)
• ELs in force June 2003 (map)
• Important New South Wales Mineral Projects

COAL & PETROLEUM

• Wilpinjong coal development area
• Coal Authorisations/Exploration Licences June 2003 (map p. 45)
• Coal Mining Proposals August 2003 (map p. 47)
• Petroleum titles June 2003 (map p. 49)

ENVIRONMENT

• Derelict Mines Program�s funds for 2003-04

SAFETY

• Ex Approval to Ex Certification
• Detailed analysis of electrical incidents

GENERAL

• Tariff concessions on imports for mining
• Exploration Licence policies revised
• STOP PRESS: Mining Regulation 2003
• New native title procedures apply to mining proposals within the Western Division
• Publications released through August 2003