• Support heritage and historic matters and initiatives within the AusIMM and its Communities of Interest

• Collaborate with a wide range of organisations involved in minerals heritage endeavours

• Contribute to the development of heritage policy matters in government and non-government instrumentalities

• Provide responses to heritage enquiries.

• Planned projects include developing informative videos and podcasts for online access, and a template for selection of further videos and podcasts.

The linked list of mining heritage sites in Australia and New Zealand is an initial attempt to document these, and the list is currently incomplete. It provides a starting point for AusIMM branches to identify and document local mining heritage sites in more detail. However, similar information is also compiled by Geotourism Australia and also by some state mining and resources departments.

Click the links below to view the Australasian Mining Heritage Checklist and accompanying notes.

The purpose of this possible project would be to ensure that pertinent information is collected from members that can provide a source of historical and heritage reference material for use by AusIMM and by bona fide researchers – with the permission of AusIMM – in the future.

The collection would form a useful, more up-to-date and complete record of the professional lives and achievements of current and future members than simply what is held in their basic membership file. It would not replace the usual membership records maintained by AusIMM, but rather would provide a fuller picture of the member and some of their contributions to the resources sector.