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Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway, spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
The Minerals Council of Australia estimates that 0.02% of Australia's land surface is directly impacted by mining. [ 33 ] Particularly significant areas today include the Goldfields , Peel and Pilbara regions of Western Australia , the Hunter Valley in New South Wales , the Bowen Basin in Queensland and Latrobe Valley in Victoria and various ...
Prominent Hill mine – copper mine near Coober Pedy, South Australia; Ranger Mine – uranium mine east of Darwin, Northern Territory; Sunrise Dam gold mine – gold mine near Laverton, Western Australia; Super Pit – gold mine near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Telfer Mine – gold and copper mine in the Pilbara, Western Australia
The mine was part of the sale of its assets by OZ Minerals to China Minmetals, majority-owned by the Chinese state, but was blocked by the Australian Government, which cited national security concerns since Prominent Hill was within a sensitive military area. Subsequently, the sale of the other OZ Minerals mines went ahead after Prominent Hill ...
Old Kintore headframe, now a museum exhibit, Broken Hill Former Delprat mine, Line of Lode, Broken Hill, 2017. The Broken Hill Ore Deposit is located underneath Broken Hill in western New South Wales, Australia, and is the namesake for the town. It is arguably the world's richest and largest zinc-lead ore deposit.
Carosue Dam Gold Mine: Saracen Mineral Holdings: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance: 111,163 (2010–11) Coolgardie Gold Mine: Focus Minerals Limited: Coolgardie: Goldfields-Esperance: 72,832 (2010–11) Coyote Gold Mine: Tanami Gold NL: Tanami Desert: Kimberley 47,960 (2009–10) Daisy Milano Gold Mine: Silverlake Resources: Kalgoorlie: Goldfields ...
The deepest hard rock mines in Australia are the copper and zinc lead mines in Mount Isa, Queensland at 1,800 m (5,900 ft). [citation needed] The deepest platinum-palladium mines in the world are on the Merensky Reef, in South Africa, with a resource of 203 million troy ounces, currently worked to a depth of approximately 2,200 m (7,200 ft).
The Mount Marion mine is an open-pit mine in Western Australia near Kalgoorlie. It was originally developed by a joint venture between Mineral Resources and Neometals and became operational in 2017. Ganfeng Lithium purchased Neometals' stake in 2018. The mine is today co-owned equally by Mineral Resources and Ganfang. [11]