1.0 SOURCE REFERENCES AND AMENDMENTS 1.1 Source References Throughout this document there are references to the Mineral Titles Act and the Mineral Titles Regulations. References to the Act are shown as “section X(y) of the Act” eg “section 17(3)(b) of the Act”, and references to the Regulations are shown as Regulation Z(y) eg Regulation 127(1). Cross references to other sections within Guideline 7 are shown in italics eg Section 3.2. Copies of these and other guidelines, and approved forms under the Mineral Titles Act are published on the nt.gov.au/industry/mining-and-petroleum website. 1.2 Recent amendments These reporting guidelines are complementary and subordinate to the Mineral Titles Act 2010 and its Regulations. The Guidelines will be updated from time to time. It is the responsibility of the
Table 5. Summary of data formats and specifications Data Type Description Format Parameter Suffix Tabular data* Point locations, geochemistry, heavy mineral, diamond indicator and drilling data Tab Delimited ASCII Standard as described in Sections 13.1 and 14.0 .txt Report text Documents, figures etc. previously provided only in hardcopy Adobe Acrobat PDF See Section 13.2 .pdf Maps, plans, figures and photographs not embodied in report text Files of maps, plans, figures, core photographs, aerial photographs etc. Adobe Acrobat PDF GEOTIFF/TIFF (colour) JPEG GIF PNG See Section 13.2 Reproducible at 300 dpi, 24 bit Q>95, reproducible at 300 dpi 8 bit .pdf .tif .jpg .gif .png GIS data Data in GIS format MapInfo Tab ESRI Shape .tab .shp Video clips Fly-throughs etc MPEG Avi .mpg .avi 3D mine models and resource estimation 3D mine model data, resource/reserve models See Table 6 See Section 13.10 3D modelling 3D models As appropriate to fulfil requirements in Section 13.10 ASCII .dxf files See Section 13.10 .dxf .txt Geophysics (other than seismic) Raw and processed located data and gridded data. For example magnetics, radiometrics, EM, DTM and gravity data ASEG GDF2 ASEG GXF (grid exchange format) ER Mapper grid XML (including schema) .dfn .dat .des .gxf .grd, .ers .xml, .xsd Geophysical and other remotely images Images derived from geophysical / remote sensing surveys, e.g. TMI, Bouguer, radiometrics, Landsat 5 or 7 GEOTIFF/TIFF (colour) TIFF (greyscale) Compressed ER Mapper JPEG GIF Reproducible at 300 dpi, 24 bit Reproducible at 300 dpi, 8 bit Best quality (least loss) Quality as above 8 bit See Section 13.2 .tif .tif .ecw .jpg .gif
PDF PNG .pdf .png Geophysical Inversion and Numerical Modelling Models Points (DXF or ASCII) Images Surfaces 3D grids (UBC Grid or GoCAD Voxet) See Section 13.2 See parameters above for Geophysical Images .dxf .txt .pdf .tif .jpg .gif .png .dxf See Table 6 Seismic data Raw and processed data SEG Y, preferably Rev. 1 SEG D .sgy .sgd Navigation data UKOOA P1/90 .uka Processed sections (refer to Petroleum data submission guidelines for further information, www.ga.gov.au) CGM+ format with metadata (line number, shotpoint number, …) Images See parameters above for Geophysical Images .cgm .tif, .jpg, .gif, .pdf, .png Petrophysical and geophysical log data Raw and processed wireline and MWD data (refer to Petroleum data submission guidelines for further information, www.ga.gov.au) DLIS and LIS LAS Delimited ASCII (format must be explained) WELLOGML (POSC standard) As defined by latest Industry Standard Include schema .lis .las .asc .xml, .xsd Log plots Adobe Acrobat PDF TIFF (colour) TIFF (greyscale) JPEG GIF PNG See Section 13.2 See parameters above for Geophysical Images 8 bit .pdf .tif .tif .jpg .gif .png Processed down-hole velocity data SEG Y, preferably Rev. 1 .sgy * proprietary formats will be accepted until an open-source International Standard is developed *.TSG or FOS files are only accepted if accompanied by an equivalent ASCII file Table 6. Summary of 3D model data types