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North Queensland geology

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Since the discovery of gold at Cape River in 1867, mining has played an important role in North Queensland by providing income, opening up new areas to settlement and providing markets for pastoralists and retailers. Mining is valued at more than $700 million per annum. Over 24 million ounces of gold have been mined or discovered in North Queensland. The Charters Towers district is a world class gold province with 15 million ounces of gold discovered in that area alone to date. Bauxite is a major commodity, contributing 10% of the world's production. The area has also been a major tin producer, and has produced, or is producing, base metals, nickel, tungsten, kaolin, antimony, silver, gemstones, limestone, dimension stone, dolomite, perlite, fluorite, molybdenum and diatomite.

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Title North Queensland geology
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2d6f05c7-50b2-41e2-81d2-5538c52cb4f0
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "North Queensland geology". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/north-queensland-geology