Mining in Australia

Australia is a country rich in natural resources, including coal, iron ore, uranium, gold, lead, iron and nickel. The three major mining locations in Australia are Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.

Western Australia is a major mining hub, and is home to some of the world’s biggest mining companies, such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group. These companies are responsible for developing some of WA’s most important mines, which produce minerals that are vital for industries around the world.

The WA mining industry employs thousands of people and contributes billions of dollars to the state’s economy each year. The sector is diverse, with companies involved in a range of activities including iron ore, gold, coal, nickel, alumina and more.

Here we provide you a list of mining companies with operations in Australia. Click on the company name to be redirected to their website.

Alcoa

The Australian operations represent one of the world’s largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting systems.

Alkane Resources

Alkane Resources Ltd is poised to become Australia’s next multi-mine gold producer.
Alkane’s projects are predominantly in the Central West region of NSW, but extend throughout Australia.

Anglo American

With significant operations in Queensland, Australia. Anglo American have two open cut and three underground metallurgical coal mines in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, along with additional joint venture interests and growth projects.

AngloGold Ashanti Australia

AngloGold Ashanti has two operations in its Australia region, Sunrise Dam and Tropicana, both of which are in the north-eastern goldfields of the state of Western Australia. 

Baralaba Coal Company

Baralaba Coal Company Pty Ltd (Baralaba) is a rapidly growing Australian metallurgical coal producer.

The Company’s flagship, Baralaba North Mine, produces a high quality Ultra-Low Volatile Pulverised Coal Injection ULV PCI coal which is highly favoured by steel mills.

Bardoc Gold Limited

Bardoc Gold Limited is developing its flagship 100%-owned Bardoc Gold Project, located just north of Kalgoorlie in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

BCI Minerals

BCI is rapidly advancing its 100% owned Mardie Salt & Potash Project, a potential Tier 1 project located on the West Pilbara coast in the centre of Australia’s key salt production region.

BHP Billiton

Our Australian business produces iron ore, copper, coal and nickel from operations in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia, and oil and gas from fields in Western Australia and Victoria.

Bravus Mining & Resources

Bravus is an Australian mining and resources company.

Centennial Coal

Centennial is an Australian mining company supplying domestic and export markets.

CITIC Pacific Mining

Sino Iron is the largest magnetite mining and processing operation in Australia – 100 kilometres south west of Karratha in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region.

Citigold Corporation Ltd

Citigold Corporation is an Australian gold mining company operating on Australia’s highest-grade major goldfield at Charters Towers in north eastern Australia

Covalent Lithium

A fully integrated lithium operation.

Dacian Gold

Dacian Gold is an Australian gold miner.

Doral Minerals Sands

Doral Mineral Sands produces titanium minerals and zircon sand products at its mineral sands operations in Western Australia’s South West and Peel region.

Glencore

In Australia, Glencore operate 25 mines in New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. We currently mine coal, copper, lead-zinc and nickel-cobalt.

Evolution Mining

Evolution Mining is a leading, growth-focused Australian gold miner. Evolution operates five wholly-owned mines – Cowal in New South Wales, Mt Carlton and Mt Rawdon in Queensland, Mungari in Western Australia, and Red Lake in Ontario, Canada. In addition, Evolution holds an economic interest in the Ernest Henry copper-gold mine in Queensland that will deliver 100% of future gold and 30% of future copper and silver produced from an agreed life of mine area. Outside of the life of mine area Evolution will have a 49% interest in future copper, gold and silver production.

First Quantum Minerals

First Quantum is a global copper company.

Fortescue Metals Group

As one of the world’s largest producers of iron ore, Fortescue’s wholly owned and integrated operations in the Pilbara include the Chichester, Solomon and Western mining hubs. Our mining infrastructure is connected to the five berth Herb Elliott Port and Judith Street Harbour towage facility in Port Hedland via the fastest heavy haul railway in the world.

Gascoyne Resources

Gascoyne Resources Limited (ASX:GCY) is an ASX listed gold mining and exploration company located in the Tier 1 mining jurisdiction of Western Australia.

Gold Fields Australia

Gold Fields is a globally diversified gold producer with nine operating mines in Australia, Peru, South Africa and West Africa (including the Asanko JV), as well as one project in Chile.

Iluka Resources

Iluka is an international mineral sands company with expertise in exploration, development, mining, processing, marketing and rehabilitation.

Karara Mining

Located 200 km south-east of Geraldton in the Shire of Perenjori, Western Australia, Karara is the largest mining operation and the first major magnetite mine in the Mid West. 

Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) 

Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) Operations is a world class asset located adjacent to the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder approximately 600 kilometres east of Perth, Western Australia.

Minara Resources

Wholly owned by Glencore, we are one of Australia’s largest nickel and cobalt producers.    

Mineral Resources

Mineral Resources is an innovative and leading mining services company with a growing world-class portfolio of mining operations across multiple commodities, including iron ore and lithium.

Mount Gibson Iron

Mount Gibson Iron Limited (ASX Code: MGX) is an independent Australian producer of high quality direct shipping grade iron ore products with assets in the Kimberley and Mid West regions of Western Australia.

Newcrest Mining

Newcrest is one of the world’s largest gold mining companies

Newmont

Newmont is the world’s leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead. The Company’s world-class portfolio of assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favorable mining jurisdictions in North America, South America, Australia and Africa.

Northern Star Resources

Northern Star is a global-scale Australian gold producer with world class projects located in highly prospective and low sovereign risk regions of Australia and North America.

Norton Gold Fields

Norton Gold Fields Pty Ltd (Norton or “the Company”) is one of Australia’s largest domestic gold producers.

Oz Minerals

OZ Minerals is a copper-focused international company based in South Australia. 

Pilbara Minerals

Pilbara Minerals is the leading ASX-listed pure-play lithium company, owning 100% of the world’s largest, independent hard-rock lithium operation. Located in Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region,

Premier Coal

Premier Coal is Western Australia’s largest coal producer, mining about 4 million tonnes per year. 

Ramelius Resources

Ramelius Resources Limited is a Western Australian gold producer that has been listed on the ASX since 2003 and in production since 2006.

Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto produce iron ore for steel, aluminium for cars and smart phones, copper for wind turbines, diamonds that set the standard for “responsible”, titanium for household products and borates for crops that feed the world

Roy Hill

Roy Hill is a world-class mining operation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, representing the next generation of integrated iron ore mining, rail and port projects. 

South32

South32 is a globally diversified mining and metals company producing bauxite, alumina, aluminium, energy and metallurgical coal, manganese, nickel, silver, lead and zinc in Australia, Southern Africa and South America.

St Barbara

St Barbara is an Australian based, ASX 200 company with gold mining operations in Australia, Canada and Papua New Guinea.

Our assets include our Leonora Operations in Western Australia, our Atlantic Operations in Nova Scotia, Canada and our Simberi Operations in Papua New Guinea.

Talison Lithium

A world-leading lithium minerals producer

Whitehaven Coal

The leading Australian producer
of premium-quality coal

Yancoal

Yancoal is a leading low-cost Australian coal producer in the global seaborne market, producing a mix of premium thermal, semi-soft coking and PCI coals for export. Owning, operating or participating in 11 coal mines across NSW, Queensland and Western Australia.