Recent updates

This new grouping will be an ongoing feature of the GeoResGlobe, where layers will be added and removed as events and incidents happen across Queensland.

Release date: 13 January 2022

Special Wildlife Reserve’s are part(s) or whole of Lot(s) on plan and are established through a voluntary conservation agreement between the Minister for the State of Queensland and private land owner(s). They are based in statute and are a recognised class of Protected Area as defined by the Nature Conservation Act, 1992.

Mining and all other types of resource activities are prohibited within these declared reserves. As part of the declaration process, an extensive consultation is made with key stakeholders to gather information about existing interests within the proposed SWR. A conservation agreement and management program are required prior to a SWR declaration.

Release date: 2 July 2021

The fossicking topic can be used to find where fossicking is permitted in Queensland without a specific landholder's permission, provided you have a fossicking licence.

It contains a group of layers relevant to fossicking including ‘General permission areas’, ‘Designated fossicking land’ and ‘Fossicking areas. Additional layers are turned on including basemaps, satellite imagery and roads that may also be of interest to users when viewing the fossicking areas.

The fossicking area search function can be used to find fossicking areas on the map by searching for the parcel name.

Links to existing fossicking map pdfs are now available in the results table for each fossicking area. For more information visit the Queensland Government website.

Watch the video tutorial to learn how to use the fossicking topic and search tool to find fossicking areas and related information.

Release date: 24 May 2021

The following layers have been added to the Water group in the Layers menu:

• Watercourse: displays watercourse lines and areas as well as inland water features such as lakes, reservoirs and canals.
• Water feature: group of layers which show the location of water bodies such as dams, rockpools, waterholes, waterfalls, swamps and pondage areas.

These layers are helpful for identifying water features over satellite imagery and solid fill map layers such as the geology.

Release date: 21 June 2021

These layers can be found within the GSQ Open Data Portal group and can be used to find permit and geoscience map products that are available for download from the GSQ Open Data Portal map collection.

The layers are divided into map product types including: Atlas, Gemfields, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Groundwater, Index maps, Industrial rock, Mine maps, Mineral occurrence, Miscellaneous, Permit and Resource maps.

Each record contains key metadata such as the map title, type, description, publication date, series, theme and a link to GODP (geoscience.data.qld.gov.au)

Refer to the help section for more information on how to search the GODP from these layers.

Saved maps which referenced the old map product layers will need to be updated to include these new layers. Instructions for how to update saved maps can be found in the help section here

Release date: June 14th 2021

The new DLA layer provides enhanced attributes such as name, description, and location details.

If you use this layer in saved maps you will need to update your saved map with the new layer, instructions for how to update your saved map can be found here.

Release date: 8th April 2021

The abandoned mines topic provides the location of surface mine features that have been assessed under the Abandoned Mine Lands Program (AMLP).

The layers also include the area of disturbance for the priority abandoned mine sites under the AMLP. Priority abandoned mine sites have been identified as higher risk sites that require remediation activities. The capture of abandoned mines spatial data is an ongoing program to build on existing data held for abandoned mines with the view to publish further data as it is developed.

For further information visit the Queensland Government – Abandoned Mines website.

Release date: 31st March 2021

This layer shows the boundaries of historic exploration resource reports that were released to the GSQ Open Data Portal under the new reporting requirements for resource authorities.

These reports include exploration reports for coal and minerals tenure made eligible for public release following the addition of defined confidentiality periods in the October 2020 update to the Mineral Resource Regulation 2013. Further information on the reporting changes can be found on the Queensland Government website .

A big feature of this layer is the fact that it can be used to spatially search for recently released reports in the GSQ Open Data Portal. Links to the reports can be found in the results table and exported csv files. Alternatively you can use the GSQ Open Data Portal search button to search for up to 600 reports at once.

Please note that this is a temporary layer which will be available until June 30th, after this date the Report Index can be used to find these reports.

Release date: April 2021

This layer is refreshed nightly, revealing reports as they become open-file. New attributes have also been added such as Report Owner, Report Author, Site and Survey PIDs, Project name and links to the reports in the GODP.

This layer can be found within the GSQ Open Data Portal topic and layer group. To show this layer, zoom in beyond 1:1,000,000 scale as it contains highly detailed data. One of the primary uses for this layer is to spatially search the portal for reports over an area of interest.

Further information on how to search the portal from this layer can be found within Search the GSQ Open Data Portal for reports help page.

Release date: 26th March 2021

These layers show the exploration tenure supported by the Collaborative Exploration Initiative (CEI), including rounds 1 to 8, with links to the reports of past rounds. Further information on the Collaborative Exploration Initiative can be found on the Queensland Government website.

These layers can be used to search for reports in the GSQ Open Data Portal using the magnifying glass button at the bottom of the results table. For more information see Search the GSQ Open Data Portal for reports.

Updated: September 2024

Release date: 19th March 2021

These layers show the exploration tenure supported by the Collaborative Drilling Initiative (CDI) between 2007 and 2017. Further information on the Collaborative Drilling Initiative can be found of the Queensland Government website.
These layers can be used to search for reports in the GSQ Open Data Portal using the magnifying glass button at the bottom of the results table. For more information on how to search the portal see Search the GSQ Open Data Portal for reports.

Release date: 22nd February 2021

This layer shows locations of current proposed infrastructure projects for the Coordinator-General's assessment and approval under the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 (SDPWO Act).

Release date: 27th January 2021

The boreholes topic now presents enhanced layer names, field aliases, labelling and improved information panels to align with the content and the GSQ Open Data Portal.

The borehole number search now also supports searching on Persistent Identifier (PID). The PID is used in the GSQ Open Data Portal as a unique identifier for all datasets and reports.

Release date: 23rd November 2020

The stock route layer (within the Cadastre group) has been split into three separate layers. Any saved maps which contain the previous stock route layer will need to be updated. Read more about this change here.

Release date: 23rd November 2020

Quarry resource access has been added to the Constrained lands group in the Layers menu. This layer shows access routes to quarry resources managed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Release date: 9th December 2020