1. Minerals are the largest export item of Australia.
2. It contributes about 10 percent of country’s GDP.
3. Australia is the world’s leading producer of bauxite, limonite, rutile and zircon.
4. The Second largest producer of gold, lead, lithium, manganese ore and zinc, the third largest producer of iron ore and uranium and they fourth largest producer of black coal.
5. The coal belts of the country stretches from New Castle to Sydney on the South Eastern Coast.
6. Iron ores are found mainly in southern and Western Australia.
7. Petroleum and natural gas is obtained from Bass Strait and west of Brisbane.
8. Uranium is mined in northern territory at Ram jungle and Queensland.
9. Gold is mined in the western desert at Kalgoorlie and Koolgarlie.
10. Lead, Silver, Zinc, Manganese, Tungsten, Nickel and copper are also mined in parts of Australia.
