The main mineral resources in Australia are coal (southeast coast), iron (west) and bauxite (northeast).
Australia has at least 70 kinds of mineral resources. Among them, bauxite reserves rank first in the world, accounting for 35% of the world's total reserves. Australia is the world's largest producer of bauxite, alumina, diamonds, lead and tantalum, and its output of gold, iron ore, coal, lithium, manganese ore, nickel, silver, uranium and zinc also ranks among the top in the world.
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Australia is also the largest exporter of bituminous coal, bauxite, lead, diamonds, zinc and concentrates, the second largest exporter of alumina, iron ore and uranium, and the third largest exporter of aluminum and gold.
The economic exploitation value of proven mineral reserves: bauxite is about 3 1 100 million tons, iron ore is about 153 million tons, bituminous coal is about 51100 million tons, lignite is about 41100 million tons, nickel is about 9 million tons, and silver is about 406 million tons. Australia has 240 billion liters of crude oil, 6543.8+0.36 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 6543.8+0.74 billion liters of liquefied petroleum gas.
Forests cover 20% of the country, including 654.38+0.55 billion hectares of natural forests (two thirds of which are eucalyptus) and 654.38+0.22 billion hectares of timber forests. Known as "the country on the harvester".