Regional Economic Profiles for Agriculture provide a profile of Queensland's primary industries. It includes information on gross value of agricultural production, as well as estimates of agricultural jobs and business counts for standard geographical regions in Queensland. This series includes information derived from Australian Bureau of Statistics census data and the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries' AgTrends publication.

QLD Department of Regional Development is a Government Body that generates the majority of its income from the State Government Administration industry.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr144788

The South Johnstone Bauxite Project (Exploration Permit 18463) covers historically-recorded bauxite occurrences associated with laterites and red soil profiles formed on the Atherton Basalt Volcanic Province, near Innisfail, Queensland. EPM18463 has an area of 115 square kilometres (following the 2020 relinquishment). The South Johnstone project permit holders are Volcan Queensland Bauxite Pty Ltd and South Johnstone Bauxite Pty Ltd, and both these companies are subsidiaries of Cann Global Limited (formerly called Queensland Bauxite Limited). Initial regional and local-scale geological investigations confirmed early reports by Znebejanek (1961) of bauxite/laterite within the South Johnstone project area. Analysis of samples recovered with a hand held XRF device (Olympus Innov-X Systems) showed the upper parts of the weathering profiles in at least half of the 60 holes drilled in 2011 were relatively enriched in alumina and depleted in silica indicating that bauxitisation had taken place. A JORC Code Inferred Resource of 27 million tonnes of gibbsitic bauxite of an average grade of 26% available alumina and 5.1% reactive silica (low temperature leaching) with thickness ranging between 0.5 and 3 metres, was calculated within EPM18463 based on drilling to 2017. At the Camp Creek Discovery, modelling resulted in a JORC Code Indicated Resource of 1.2 Mt of average grade of 30.2% Av Al2O3 and 3.2% Rx SiO2. This figure includes a 220,000 tonne JORC Measured Resource within Franks Lots 4 & 5 on Plan RP739786 at Camp Creek. A mineral development licence MDL 2004 was granted over this area on 13th October 2017. On the 24nd May 2022, at the end of permit year 12, the holders of EPM18463 allowed the permit to lapse. The low available alumina grade of 26% and relatively high reactive silica grade of 5.1% compared with better quality bauxites further north on Cape York Peninsula and elsewhere in the world, has resulted in little interest from potential buyers or offtake partners.

This project describes the soils, landscapes and agricultural suitability of the Upper Logan and Albert Rivers Catchment. The data collected in this project (known as the LARA project) informs and supports prioritisation for land degradation rehabilitation, natural resource and catchment management planning, water quality and environmental modelling, as well as local government and regional planning decisions. Soil and landscape attributes were assigned to unique mapping areas (UMAs) based on information collected from 1,496 observations, air photo and satellite imagery interpretation, and digital elevation mapping. Conceptual soil profile descriptions, known as Soil Profile Classes (SPCs) were used to describe the relationship between soils, landforms, lithology and geology. Soil and landscape attributes were used to assess the agricultural land classes (ALC) for each UMA. Read more about soil types.

URL: https://geoscience.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/cr132512

The 14GA-CF1 seismic transect adds new detail to previous understandings of the subsurface linkages between the Mount Isa and Georgetown Provinces, including new detail of the longitudinal extent of the Mesoproterozoic? Millungera Basin. The transect also provides the first full crustal image of the continent-scale Diamantina Lineament which abruptly terminates the Mount Isa Province at its southern extremity. The latter is revealed as a crustal-scale south-dipping fault penetrating the MOHO at the crust/mantle boundary, forming the northern margin of a northeasttrending rift-like basin controlling deposition of the earliest Thomson Orogen successions.

The northern segment of the seismic profile images the eastern margin of the Mount Isa Inlier as a southeastdipping extensional fault system (displaying some later Isan Orogeny inversion) facilitating development of the (now subsurface) Julia Creek Basin during the latest Paleoproterozoic. The basin extends to a depth of ~6.5 s two-way travel time (TWT) (~20 km) and is inferred to comprise mainly moderately to poorly reflective meta-sediments, mafic lavas and sills of the Soldiers Cap Group, underlain by a basal relatively non-reflective sequence of uncertain affinity.

By comparison with the intersecting 07GA-IG1 seismic profile, the Julia Creek Basin section is here recognised as being contiguous with the Kowanyama Seismic Province of Korsch et al. (2012), while the underlying more reflective lower crustal section is recognised as a continuation of the Numil Seismic Province defined by Korsch et al. (2012) from the 07GA-IG1 profile. The now deeply-buried Numil crustal layer forming basement to the Julia Creek Basin displays a segmented, block-faulted character in the 14GA-CF1 profile, probably reflecting its fragmentation during basin development prior to its eventual foundering and burial by the Julia Creek Basin succession. An upper more reflective section of the Numil Province crust has also been delineated in the 14GA-CF1 profile, and has also been recognised in the orthogonal 07GA-IG1 deep seismic profile.

A zone running the length of the eastern margin of the Mount Isa Inlier has been identified where discrete Numil-Isa seismic and conductivity contrasts occur. However, no feature similar in character to the Gidyea Suture Zone defining the eastern margin of the Mount Isa Inlier on the 07GA-IG1 seismic profile has been identified from the 14GA-CF1 profile crossing the margin further to the northeast. Moreover, the Numil-Isa basement contrast is not evident at depth across this segment of the Mount Isa margin, where the Isa basement displays more Numil-style characteristics. These features point to a more complex history for the eastern Mount Isa margin than previously proposed, and highlight the need for further careful integration of existing and new geophysical, geological and isotopic datasets to resolve the origin, timing and significance of crustal-scale structures underpinning the region.

Bibliographic reference: Donchak, P.J.T. 2021. Notes on the geological interpretation of deep seismic transect 14GA-CF1, including inferences from other associated regional datasets. Queensland Geological Record 2021/04.