Recent improvements to Australian apparent polar wander paths for the different geological periods allow palaeomagnetic analysis to contribute increasingly to reconstruction of mineralisation environments and the study of ore formation processes. This paper looks at the application of palaeomagnetism to the timing of regional chemical alteration, mapping of hydrothermal fluid flow paths, identification and timing of intraplate tectonism (which controls the evolution of sedimentary basins that host mineralisation as well as the circulation of mineralising fluids in the upper crust), location of displaced metallogenic provinces of formerly single tectonic units, and dating of strata. Numerous examples are available of the application of palaeomagnetism to mineralisation studies, especially in North America. An Australian example is the discovery in the southeastern McArthur Basin of magnetic overprint signatures that suggest wide-spread circulation of fluids during the general period when the HYC Pb-Zn deposit formed. Another Australian example is the dating of the Au-bearing Quamby Conglomerate in the Cloncurry region: the date is substantially older than the earlier, tentatively estimated ages, opening the possibility that the mineralisation occurred within a large fluid circulation system that existed at the time of intrusion of late Palaeoproterozoic granites. Palaeomagnetism has also been used to establish a geological framework that integrates tectonic, magmatic and mineralisation events in northern Australia. A recent palaeomagnetic reconstruction suggests the proximity during the Palaeoproterozoic of the Pacific margins of the Australian and North American cratons, with implications for mineral exploration in both continents.