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New South Wales
Hunter Valley coal, the silver–lead–zinc city of Broken Hill, and gold–copper mines through the central west.
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128
sites in the register
111
operating
6
care & maintenance
11
in development
The districts
Hunter Valley
Australia’s most storied thermal-coal district.
far west NSW
Broken Hill — the ore body that founded an industry.
Illawarra
Coking coal beneath the escarpment south of Sydney.
Lightning Ridge
The home of black opal.
Most-recorded commodities
Operating · 111
Abel Coal Airly Coal Angus Place Coal Appin Coal Appin Coal Ardlethan Tin Ashton Coal Atlas Mineral sands, Uranium Atlas-Campaspe Mineral sands Avoca Tank Copper, Gold, Silver Baal Bone Coal Bengalla Coal Berrima Coal Bloomfield Coal Boggabri Coal Broken Hill Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold Broken Hill - Rasp Mine Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper Broula Iron ore Budgery Copper, Gold, Silver Bulga Coal Cadia Iron ore Cadia East Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver Cadia Project Copper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Iron ore Caloma Gold Canyon Coal Canyon Mine Coal Chain Valley Coal Chesney Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Silver Clarence Coal Cobar Basin Operations Copper, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver Cobar CSA Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold Cowal Gold, Silver Crayfish Mineral sands Cumnock Coal Dendrobium Coal Donaldson Coal Endeavor Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead Federation Zinc, Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver Glendell Coal Glendell Coal Gloucester Coal Grant and Chainey Coal Hawkins Hill Gold Hill End Gold Howick Coal Hunter Valley Operations Coal Integra (Camberwell) Coal Inverell-Glen Innes Sapphire Invincible Coal Ivanhoe North Coal Kara Mineral sands Kulwin Mineral sands Lightning Ridge Opal Mandalong Coal Mangoola Coal Mannering Coal Maules Creek Coal Maxwell Coal Maxwell (Drayton) Coal Metropolitan Coal Mineral Hill Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver Moolarben Coal Mount Arthur Coal Mount Owen Coal Mount Owen Complex Coal Mount Pleasant (MACH Energy Pty Limited) Coal Mount Thorley Coal Murrawombie Copper, Gold, Silver, Cobalt Muswellbrook Coal Myuna Coal Narrabri Coal New Cobar Copper, Gold New Occidental Gold, Copper Newstan Coal Newstan Lochiel Coal North East - Larsens Copper Northparkes Copper, Gold Oakdale Coal Peak Mines Project Copper, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver Perseverance Gold, Copper Pine Dale Coal Ravensworth Narama Coal Ravensworth North Coal Ravensworth UG Coal Rix's Creek Coal Rocglen Coal Snapper Mineral sands Springvale Coal Stratford Coal Sunnyside Coal Tahmoor Coal Tallawang Iron ore Tarrawonga Coal Tasman Coal The Peak Copper, Gold Thuddungra Magnesite Tomingley Gold Tomingley Project Gold Tritton Copper, Gold, Silver, Cobalt Tritton Copper Project Copper, Cobalt, Gold, Silver Ulan Coal United Coal Wambo Coal Warkworth Coal West Cliff Coal West Wallsend Coal Westside Coal White Cliffs Opal Wilpinjong Coal Wongawilli Colliery (NRE) Coal Woodlawn Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold, Iron ore
Care & maintenance · 6
In development · 11
Bowdens Silver, Zinc, Lead In development Burra (Owendale) Cobalt, Nickel, Platinum group metals, Magnesite, Copper, Iron ore, Gold In development Canbelego Gold, Copper In development Cullen Valley Coal In development Dubbo Project Rare earth elements, Mineral sands, Uranium, Tantalum & niobium In development Gabanintha Vanadium (Technology Metals) Iron ore, Mineral sands, Vanadium In development Hillgrove Project Gold, Tungsten, Antimony In development Hume Coal In development Sunrise Nickel, Cobalt, Platinum group metals, Chromium In development Taronga Tin, Copper, Silver In development Wonawinta Silver, Lead In development
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