Mining in Western Australia
Mining in Western Australia, together with the petroleum industry in the state, accounted for 94% of the State's and 46% of Australia's income from total merchandise exports in 2019–20. The state of Western Australia hosted 123 predominan ...
is administered in terms of the administrative divisions of the:-
* Gold or Mineral Field
* Goldfield District
There have also been various hierarchies of ''State Mining Engineer Inspectorate'' areas, as well as ''Mining Registrars Offices'' and areas.
List of fields
The following list is of the current Gold (G.F.) or Mineral (M.F.) Fields in the state
The prefix code number is that which is found on maps of the Mineral Fields of the state. Areas are in square kilometres and Gazetted dates are from a 1981 publication.
[(1981) ''Map of Western Australia showing , Administrative Divisions and principal mines and operators'' Perth, Department of Mines ''Administrative divisions list'']
The three areas outside proclaimed Gold Fields are listed below the table: -
Mining districts outside proclaimed Gold fields in 1981
* Eucla 124,500 km
2 gazetted 6 October 1967
* Nabberu 136,250 km
2 gazetted 6 October 1967
* Warburton 260,483 km
2 gazetted 6 October 1967 now number 69 above
See also
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Eastern Goldfields
The Eastern Goldfields is part of the Western Australian Goldfields in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, covering the present and former gold-mining area east of Perth.
Extent and name origin
The region encompasses the to ...
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Ghost towns of the Goldfields of Western Australia
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Goldfields–Esperance
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Hints to Prospectors and Owners of Treatment Plants
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Mining in Western Australia
Mining in Western Australia, together with the petroleum industry in the state, accounted for 94% of the State's and 46% of Australia's income from total merchandise exports in 2019–20. The state of Western Australia hosted 123 predominan ...
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Regions of Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is divided into regions according to a number of systems.
The most common system is the division of the state by the Government of Western Australia in 1993 into regions for economic development purposes, which comprises ...
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State Batteries in Western Australia
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Western Australia Atlas of mineral deposits and petroleum fields''
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Western Australian Goldfields
References
Further reading
* (1981) Mineral fields of the southwest : guide book / by S.A. Wilde, C.R.M. Butt, J.L. Baxter; compiled by T.E. Johnston.
ustralia: Geological Society of Australia, 1981. Excursion guide; A4 Geological Society of Australia, fifth Australian Geological Convention.
* (1936) Map of the Western Australian goldfields and mineral fields 1936
artographic material Mines Department of Western Australia. Scale
a.1:550 000 a. 1" = 10 miles (E 112° -- E 123°/S 020° -- S 036°) Shows state batteries, telegraph lines and stock routes. Battye accession number 002306.
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