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NAME OF COLLECTION
Mining and Extractive Collection, Victoria

Contact
Manager
Industry Assessment and Statistics
Minerals and Petroleum Regulation
Minerals and Petroleum Victoria
Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Victoria
PO Box 500
EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002

Telephone: Melbourne 03 9412 5060
Facsimile: Melbourne 03 9412 5150
Email: Kemal.Inan@nre.vic.gov.au
Web site: <http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au>

Purpose
To collect mining and extractive industries information on expenditure, production, royalty, employment, hours worked, and health and safety.

Description
A questionnaire is mailed to all (1,267) mining, extractive and exploration operations in Victoria to collect the data. Frequency of data collection:

• health and safety - six-monthly;
• mining production and royalty - six-monthly;
• mining expenditure - six-monthly;
• exploration expenditure - six-monthly;
• extractive health and safety - six-monthly; and
• extractive production and royalty - annually.

• mineral production;
• stone production;
• mineral and stone royalty;
• employment - mining, exploration, extractive;
• hours worked - mining, exploration, extractive;
• mining expenditure;
• exploration expenditure; and
• health and safety - mining, exploration, extractive.

Frequency of data availability
Annual.

Reference period
Year ended 30 June.

Historical data
Data are available from 1970 for extractive production and 1981 for mining production.

Products and services
Publication

• Minerals and Petroleum Victoria Annual Statistical Review

• Some data may be available on request.
• For other examples for data see web site <http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/>.

	Gold kg	Gold ounces	Copper concentrate t	Zinc concentrate t
1993-94	3,917	125,960	16,287	1,012
1994-95	4,319	138,876	13,163	5,947
1995-96	4,838	155,550	1,338	6,384
1996-97	4,710	151,229	-	-
1997-98	4,979	160,122	-	-
1998-99	4,947	159,088	-	-
1999-2000	4,790	154,043	-	-
2000-01	3,814	122,632	-	-