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The Mid West has a diverse range of minerals and is also highly prospective for wind, wave, geothermal and biomass energy production and is increasingly recognised as having a role as a future energy hub including renewable hydrogen.
One of Australia's most diverse mining provinces that includes talc, gold, lead, tin, tantalum, zinc, heavy mineral sands, iron ore, copper, clays, pigments, nickel, vanadium, titanium, gypsum, chromite, platinoids, limestone, limesands and manganese ore. Australia's first lead mine at Galena (Geraldine Lead Mine, 1849). Home to the first iron ore mine in WA (Koolanooka, 1966). Mount Magnet is the longest surviving gold mining settlement in WA. The oldest and most productive talc mine in the southern hemisphere (second most productive in the world) is located in Three Springs. Wilgie Mia near Cue is the oldest known mining operation in the world with excavations of ochre occurring for at least 40,000 years. The world’s oldest rocks are located in the Mid West (in the Murchison subregion). |
Northern Territory Secondary Schools
Darwin, Northern Territory
08 8983 7300
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
08 8958 5000
Darwin, Northern Territory
08 8999 1222
Darwin, Northern Territory
08 8983 7777
Gunbalanya, Northern Territory
08 8979 0181
Katherine East, Northern Territory
08 8973 8200
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory
08 8987 0844
Darwin, Northern Territory
08 8983 7677
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
08 8997 7000
Darwin, Northern Territory
1800 645 147
Darwin, Northern Territory
08 8945 1277
Palmerston, Northern Territory
08 8997 7999
Galiwinku, Northern Territory
08 8987 9044
Katherine East, Northern Territory
08 8972 3555
Alice Springs, Northern Territory
08 8950 4511
Humpty Doo, Northern Territory
08 8983 7000
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory
08 8962 2102
Darwin, Northern Territory
08 8978 3970
Anmatjere, Northern Territory
08 8956 4011