Database Name:	Australia's Geoscience, Minerals and Petroleum Database
Acronym:	AESIS
Producer:	Australian Mineral Foundation
Type of Information:	Bibliographic
Group(s):	ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, GEOLOGY, METALLURGY, MINERAL RESOURCES, MINING, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY, PROCESSES
Database Description:	Provides a complete index to all available Australian information, both published and unpublished, in : aerial surveys; blasting; climatology; coal exploration; drilling; economic geology; energy; engineering geology; environmental protection; extractive metallurgy; general and historical geology; geochemistry; geophysics; industrial materials; materials handling; mineral economics; mineral exploration; mineral industry; mineral processing; mineral resources; mineralogy; mines and mining; petroleum exploration; petrology; pollution; regional geology; safety and health; sedimentary geology; sismology; stratigraphy; structural geology; volcanism.
Information Sources:	More than 650 journals, conference papers, books, maps, field guides, academic theses, and unpublished company exploration reports from all the Mines Departments around Australia.
Time Span:	Since 1975
Numer of Records:	More than 189,000 (DIALOG)
Language:	English
Updating Frequency:	Variable, according to the host system
Distributors:	Australian Government (online) : Minerals  and  Energy (covering coal, petroleum and other resources) DIALOG (online, only up to 2001)