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Zinc – Australia was third to China and Peru in zinc production in 2019, producing 1.3 million tonnes, 10% of world production. [42] Coal – Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal and fourth largest producer of coal behind China, USA and India. [43] Oil shale – Australia has the sixth largest defined oil shale resources. [44]
It is known for its bone collection, art and graffiti, and messages written by tourists. The dugout is featured as a set in movies, including Pitch Black and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. [40] [41] The Umoona Opal Mine and Museum is a popular attraction. [42] The annual Coober Pedy Opal Festival takes place in June, with the 34th edition ...
The Mintabie Opal Field in South Australia located about 250 km (160 mi) northwest of Coober Pedy has also produced large quantities of crystal opal and the rarer black opal. Over the years, it has been sold overseas incorrectly as Coober Pedy opal. The black opal is said to be some of the best examples found in Australia.
Andamooka Opal, presented to Queen Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen's Opal; Flame Queen Opal; Galaxy Opal; Halley's Comet Opal, the world's largest uncut black opal; Olympic Australis Opal, reported to be the largest and most valuable gem opal ever found
The Argyle Diamond Mine was a diamond mine located in the East Kimberley region in the remote north of Western Australia. Argyle was at times the largest diamond producer in the world by volume (14 million carats in 2018 [ 1 ] ), although the proportion of gem-quality diamonds was low.
Mintabie is an opal mining community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY lands) in South Australia.It was unique in comparison to other communities situated in the APY Lands, in that its residents were largely not of Aboriginal Australian origin, and the land had been leased to the Government of South Australia for opal mining purposes since the 1980s.
The Fire of Australia opal is a 998 gram uncut opal mined by Walter Bartram in 1946 at the Eight Mile field in Coober Pedy, South Australia. [1] [2] The opal is just under 5,000 carats; roughly equivalent in size to two cricket balls. [1] Although rough-cut, it is polished on two sides. [3] Due to the evaporation of an inland sea several ...
Ellendale quickly became known as the largest single source of Fancy Yellow diamonds in the world. Whereas most diamond mines produce less than 1% Fancy Yellow stones, Ellendale's production was approximately 12%. In 2009 Tiffany & Co. launched its Yellow Diamond collection in Japan in April 2010, followed by a U.S. debut later that year.