States & regions
Where the industry lives — from the Pilbara to the West Coast of Tasmania.
Victoria
823The goldfields that built Melbourne, brown coal in the Latrobe Valley, mineral sands in the west, and a broad extractive-materials economy.
Western Australia
540The engine room of Australian mining — iron ore in the Pilbara, gold and nickel in the Goldfields, lithium, alumina and more.
Queensland
168Coking coal in the Bowen Basin, base metals in the North West Minerals Province, and bauxite at Weipa.
New South Wales
128Hunter Valley coal, the silver–lead–zinc city of Broken Hill, and gold–copper mines through the central west.
South Australia
125Home to one of the world’s great copper–uranium–gold systems, the historic Copper Coast, and most of Australia’s opal.
Northern Territory
43Manganese, bauxite, gold and zinc across some of Australia’s most remote country.
Tasmania
25A dense, historic mineral field — tin, copper, zinc and gold along the wild West Coast.