List of mines in Australia
This list of mines in Australia is subsidiary to the list of mines article and lists working, defunct and planned mines in the country organised by primary mineral output. For practical purposes, this list also contains stone, marble and other quarries.
As of October 2012, there were 405 operating mines in Australia.[1]
Coal
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Copper
Prominent Hill Mine, 2008
Mount Morgan Mine, 1903
- Browns polymetallic ore deposit
- Cadia-Ridgeway Mine
- Carrapateena mine
- Copper Mines of Tasmania
- Ernest Henry mine
- Golden Grove Mine
- Hillside mine (proposed)
- Kanmantoo mine
- Mount Dundas (Tasmania)
- Mount Elliott mine
- Mount Isa Mines
- Mount Jukes Mine sites
- Mount Morgan Mine
- Mount Read (Tasmania)
- Olympic Dam mine
- Prominent Hill Mine
- Telfer Mine
- Wheal Hughes
Gold
Iron
Lead
Nickel
Silver
- Broken Hill ore deposit
- Cannington Mine
- Golden Grove Mine
- Hilton Mine
- McArthur River zinc mine
- Mount Isa Mines
- Mount Morgan Mine
- Olympic Dam, South Australia
- Prominent Hill Mine
- Sunny Corner, New South dales
- Wheal Watkins
Talc
Tin
- Emmaville, New South Wales
- Mount Bischoff
- Renison Bell, a
Uranium
Ranger Uranium Mine, 2009
Zinc
Alumina/ Bauxite
- Alcoa Australia
- Rio Tinto Alcan
- Weipa Mine
- Worsley Alumina
See also
Mining in Australia by State /Territory
Victoria
Western Australia
- Mining in Western Australia
- Gold mining in Western Australia
- Western Australian gold rush
- List of active gold mines in Western Australia
See also
References
- "Operating Mines dataset". Australian Atlas of mineral resources, mines & processing centres. Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
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