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