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Mining in Australia

Index Mining in Australia

Mining in Australia is a significant primary industry and contributor to the Australian economy. [1]

125 relations: Adelaide, Alcan, Alcoa, Aluminum Corporation of China Limited, Antimony, Austrade, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Labor Party, Australian Securities Exchange, Ballarat, Bauxite, Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Bendigo, Beverley Uranium Mine, BHP, Billycan, Birchgrove, New South Wales, Bowen Basin, Box Flat Mine, Broken Hill, Bronzewing Gold Mine, Bulli, New South Wales, Burra, South Australia, Century Mine, Challenger mine, Coal, Cobalt, Colin Thiele, Company town, Coober Pedy, Copper Coast, Craig Wallace (politician), Creswick, Victoria, CSIRO, De-Anne Kelly, Economy of Australia, Far North Queensland, Fly-in fly-out, Four Mile uranium mine, Geoscience Australia, Glen Osmond, South Australia, Goldfields-Esperance, Government of Australia, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, Honeymoon Uranium Mine, Hunter Region, Ilmenite, Immigration to Australia, Iron ore, ..., Kadina, South Australia, Kalgoorlie, Kapunda, Kriv Stenders, Latrobe Valley, Leigh Creek, Lignite, Lithium, Manganese, Maptek, Melbourne, Minerals Council of Australia, Mining in the Northern Territory, Mining in Western Australia, Moonta, South Australia, Mount Isa, Mount Morgan, Queensland, Mount Mulligan mine disaster, Moura, Queensland, New South Wales, Newcrest Mining, Nickel, Nickel Queen, Norway, NSW Minerals Council, Nuclear power, Nuclear weapon, Oil platform, Oil shale, Olympic Dam mine, Opal, Ophir, New South Wales, Outback, Peel (Western Australia), Peter Costello, Pilbara, Primary sector of the economy, Queenstown, Tasmania, Ranger Uranium Mine, Rare-earth element, Red Dog (film), Richard Lowenstein, Rio Tinto Group, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Rutile, Shenhua Group, Silicon dioxide, South Australia, South East Queensland, Special Broadcasting Service, Strikebound, Super Pit gold mine, Swanbank, Queensland, Tasmania, The Australian, The Last of the Knucklemen, Tim Burstall, Tin, Titanium, Treasurer of Australia, Tungsten, Uranium, Uranium mining, Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, Vanadium, Victoria (Australia), Wallaroo, South Australia, Wendy Richardson, Wheal Watkins mine, Xstrata, Yandicoogina mine, Yorke Peninsula, Zinc, Zircon, 1912 North Mount Lyell disaster. Expand index (75 more) »

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Alcan

Alcan was a Canadian mining company and aluminum manufacturer.

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Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (from Aluminum Company of America) is an American industrial corporation.

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Aluminum Corporation of China Limited

Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (known as Chalco), is a Chinese company listed in Hong Kong SAR and in New York.

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Antimony

Antimony is a chemical element with symbol Sb (from stibium) and atomic number 51.

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Austrade

The Australian Trade and Investment Commission, or Austrade, is the Australian Government's trade, investment and education promotion agency.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the independent statistical agency of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian Securities Exchange

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX, sometimes referred to outside Australia as the Sydney Stock Exchange) is Australia's primary securities exchange.

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Ballarat

Ballarat is a city located on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Bauxite

Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.

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Beaconsfield, Tasmania

Beaconsfield is a former gold mining town near the Tamar River, in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia.

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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and approximately north west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Beverley Uranium Mine

The Beverley Mine is Australia's third uranium mine and Australia's first operating in-situ recovery mine.

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BHP

BHP, formerly known as BHP Billiton, is the trading entity of BHP Billiton Limited and BHP Billiton plc, an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum dual-listed public company headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Billycan

A billycan is a lightweight cooking pot in the form of a metal bucketFarrell, Michael.

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Birchgrove, New South Wales

Birchgrove is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Bowen Basin

The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserves in Australia.

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Box Flat Mine

The Box Flat Mine or Box Flat Colliery was located at Swanbank in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

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Broken Hill

Broken Hill is an inland mining city in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia.

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Bronzewing Gold Mine

The Bronzewing Gold Mine is a gold mine located approximately 83 km north-east of Leinster, Western Australia.

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Bulli, New South Wales

Bulli is a northern suburb of Wollongong situated on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.

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Burra, South Australia

Burra is a pastoral centre and historic tourist town in the mid-north of South Australia.

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Century Mine

Century Mine is a large open cut zinc, lead and silver mine 250 km north northwest of Mount Isa in North West Queensland, Australia.

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Challenger mine

The Challenger mine is a gold mine in the Far North of South Australia, 165 km west of the Stuart Highway and 740 km north-west of Adelaide.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27.

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Colin Thiele

Colin Milton Thiele AC (16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator.

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Company town

A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer.

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Coober Pedy

Coober Pedy is a town in northern South Australia, north of Adelaide on the Stuart Highway.

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Copper Coast

*This article is about a region in Australia.

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Craig Wallace (politician)

Craig Andrew Wallace (born 12 June 1969) is an Australian politician.

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Creswick, Victoria

Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 129 km northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn.

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CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent Australian federal government agency responsible for scientific research.

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De-Anne Kelly

De-Anne Margaret Kelly (born 21 March 1954) is an Australian former politician.

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Economy of Australia

The economy of Australia is one of the largest mixed-market economies in the world, with a GDP of A$1.69 trillion as of 2017.

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Far North Queensland

Far North Queensland, or Tropical North Queensland, is the northernmost part of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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Fly-in fly-out

Fly-in fly-out is a method of employing people in remote areas by flying them temporarily to the work site instead of relocating employees and their families permanently.

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Four Mile uranium mine

Four Mile is Australia's fifth uranium mine.

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Geoscience Australia

Geoscience Australia is an agency of the Australian Government.

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Glen Osmond, South Australia

Glen Osmond is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside which is in the foothills of the Adelaide Hills.

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Goldfields-Esperance

The Goldfields-Esperance region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Henry Handel Richardson

Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 187020 March 1946), known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author.

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Henry Lawson

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet.

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Honeymoon Uranium Mine

The Honeymoon Mine is Australia's fourth uranium mine and Australia's second operating in-situ recovery mine and began production in 2011.

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Hunter Region

The Hunter Region, also commonly known as the Hunter Valley, is a region of New South Wales, Australia, extending from approximately to north of Sydney.

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Ilmenite

Ilmenite, also known as Manaccanite, is a titanium-iron oxide mineral with the idealized formula.

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Immigration to Australia

Immigration to Australia began when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Kadina, South Australia

Kadina is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of the Australian state of South Australia, approximately 144 kilometres north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Kalgoorlie

Kalgoorlie, part of the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, is a city in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway.

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Kapunda

Kapunda is a town on the Light River and near the Barossa Valley in South Australia.

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Kriv Stenders

Kriv Stenders is an Australian writer, producer and director best known for the film Red Dog and the thriller film Kill Me Three Times.

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Latrobe Valley

The Latrobe Valley is an inland geographical district and urban area of the Gippsland region in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Leigh Creek

Leigh Creek is a former coal-mining town in eastern central South Australia.

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Lignite

Lignite, often referred to as brown coal, is a soft, brown, combustible, sedimentary rock formed from naturally compressed peat.

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Lithium

Lithium (from lit) is a chemical element with symbol Li and atomic number 3.

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Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.

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Maptek

Maptek provides comprehensive 3D modelling, spatial analysis and design technology to the global mining industry with a range of solutions; Vulcan, I-Site, MineSuite, Eureka, BlastLogic, PerfectDig, Sentry and Evolution.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Minerals Council of Australia

The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) is an industry association, notable for representing companies that generate most of Australia's mining output.

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Mining in the Northern Territory

Mining in the Northern Territory accounts for 16.4% of the gross domestic product, inclusive of both the minerals at petroleum industries.

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Mining in Western Australia

Mining in Western Australia, together with the petroleum industry in the state, accounted for 92 per cent of the State's and 41% of Australia's income from total merchandise exports in 2015–16.

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Moonta, South Australia

Moonta is a town on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, north-northwest of the state capital of Adelaide.

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Mount Isa

Mount Isa is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia.

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Mount Morgan, Queensland

Mount Morgan is a town and locality in Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Mount Mulligan mine disaster

The Mount Mulligan mine disaster occurred on 19 September 1921 in Mount Mulligan, Far North Queensland, Australia.

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Moura, Queensland

Moura is a small town and locality in the Shire of Banana in Central Queensland, Australia.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Newcrest Mining

Newcrest Mining Limited is an Australian-based corporation which engages in the exploration, development, mining and sale of gold and gold-copper concentrate.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nickel Queen

Nickel Queen is a 1971 Australian comedy film starring Googie Withers and directed by her husband John McCallum.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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NSW Minerals Council

The NSW Minerals Council is a lobbying body created by the large mining companies operating in New South Wales.

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Nuclear power

Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.

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Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).

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Oil platform

An oil platform, offshore platform, or offshore drilling rig is a large structure with facilities for well drilling to explore, extract, store, process petroleum and natural gas which lies in rock formations beneath the seabed.

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Oil shale

Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons, called shale oil (not to be confused with tight oil—crude oil occurring naturally in shales), can be produced.

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Olympic Dam mine

The Olympic Dam mine is a large poly-metallic underground mine located in South Australia, 550 km NNW of Adelaide.

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Opal

Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica (SiO2·nH2O); its water content may range from 3 to 21% by weight, but is usually between 6 and 10%.

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Ophir, New South Wales

Ophir is the name of a locality in New South Wales, Australia in Cabonne Shire.

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Outback

The Outback is the vast, remote interior of Australia.

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Peel (Western Australia)

The Peel region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia.

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Peter Costello

Peter Howard Costello, AC (born 14 August 1957), is a former Australian politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian Howard Government from 1996 to 2007.

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Pilbara

The Pilbara is a large, dry, thinly populated region in the north of Western Australia.

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Primary sector of the economy

An industry involved in the extraction and collection of natural resources, such as copper and timber, as well as by activities such as farming and fishing.

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Queenstown, Tasmania

Queenstown is a town in the West Coast region of the island of Tasmania, Australia.

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Ranger Uranium Mine

The Ranger Uranium Mine is a uranium mine in the Northern Territory of Australia.

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Rare-earth element

A rare-earth element (REE) or rare-earth metal (REM), as defined by IUPAC, is one of a set of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table, specifically the fifteen lanthanides, as well as scandium and yttrium.

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Red Dog (film)

Red Dog is a 2011 Australian comedy-drama family film written by Daniel Taplitz, directed by Kriv Stenders and produced by Nelson Woss and Julie Ryan.

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Richard Lowenstein

Richard Lowenstein (born 1 March 1959) is an Australian film-maker.

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Rio Tinto Group

Rio Tinto Group is an Australian-British multinational and one of the world's largest metals and mining corporations.

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Roxby Downs, South Australia

Roxby Downs is a mining town in outback South Australia, 563 kilometres north of the state capital Adelaide.

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Rutile

Rutile is a mineral composed primarily of titanium dioxide (TiO2).

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Shenhua Group

Shenhua Group Corporation Limited is a Chinese state-owned mining and energy company.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (from the Latin silex), is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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South East Queensland

South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, political, and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains 3.5 million people out of the state's population of 4.8 million.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is a hybrid-funded Australian public broadcasting radio, online, and television network.

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Strikebound

Strikebound is a 1984 Australian film directed by Richard Lowenstein and based on the Wendy Lowenstein novel Dead Men Don't Dig Coal.

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Super Pit gold mine

The Fimiston Open Pit, colloquially known as the Super Pit, was Australia's largest open cut gold mine until 2016 when it was surpassed by the Newmont Boddington gold mine also in Western Australia.

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Swanbank, Queensland

Swanbank is a locality in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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The Australian

The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964.

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The Last of the Knucklemen

The Last of the Knucklemen is a 1979 Australian film directed by Tim Burstall.

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Tim Burstall

Timothy Burstall AM (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie Alvin Purple (1973) and its sequel Alvin Rides Again.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Titanium

Titanium is a chemical element with symbol Ti and atomic number 22.

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Treasurer of Australia

The Treasurer of Australia is the minister in the Government of Australia responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising.

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Tungsten

Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with symbol W (referring to wolfram) and atomic number 74.

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Uranium

Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.

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Uranium mining

Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground.

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Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park

Kakadu National Park, located in the Northern Territory of Australia, possesses within its boundaries a number of large uranium deposits.

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Vanadium

Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Wallaroo, South Australia

Wallaroo is a port town on the western side of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, northwest of Adelaide.

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Wendy Richardson

Wendy Richardson, OAM (born 1933) is one of Australia's most popular playwrights, best known as the author of Windy Gully.

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Wheal Watkins mine

Wheal Watkins mine is an historic lead and silver mine in Glen Osmond, South Australia.

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Xstrata

Xstrata plc was an Anglo-Swiss multinational mining company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom.

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Yandicoogina mine

The Yandicoogina mine, often shortened to Yandi, is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 95 kilometres north-west of Newman.

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Yorke Peninsula

The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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Zircon

Zircon is a mineral belonging to the group of nesosilicates.

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1912 North Mount Lyell disaster

The 1912 North Mount Lyell disaster (also known at the time as the Mount Lyell disaster and North Mount Lyell fire) refers to a fire that broke out on 12 October 1912 at the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company operations on the West Coast of Tasmania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia

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