Standards for Submitting Digital Data to Crown Minerals to be enforced from 1st April 2009

From 1 April 2009 Crown Minerals will no longer accept data submissions that fail to meet the requirements outlined in Regulation 10 of the Crown Minerals (Minerals and Coal) Regulations 2007, and supported by the Mineral and Coal Digital Data Submission Standards. This document can be found on the Crown Minerals website under Mineral Legislation. These Regulations establish format requirements by specifying that Documents must be provided electronically to the Secretary thus achieving three broad objectives:

• to maximise the amount of digital data submitted to Crown Minerals;
• to maximise usefulness of statutory digital data released to open file;
• to minimise costs associated with acceptance, storage and release of digital information.

In April 2008, Crown Minerals released the first version of the Mineral and Coal Digital Data Submission Standards. The intention of this document is to define the statement in the regulations "acceptable to the Secretary" by detailing the preferred data formats and compilation process to ensure that all critical metadata is captured and supporting data included with submissions.

For a brief overview of what is required, please refer to the checklist on page 11 of the document. Please review this document regularly as it is updated when necessary.

Please forward this notice to your Geotechnical Contractors, and those within your organisation who may be making data submissions.

Source: Crown Minerals