MURCHISON

NARRYER NABBERU

SOUTHERNCROSS

BANGEMALL

KIMBERLEY

SOUTHNICHOLSON

GAWLER

ADELAIDE

CENTRALLACHLAN

EASTERNLACHLAN

NEWENGLAND

PROSERPINE

CAIRNS

MOUNT ISA

ROCKY CAPE

DUNDAS

PINE CREEK

MCARTHUR

COEN

EASTERNGOLDFIELDS

Middleback Range

Lake Giles

Jack Hills

Roper River Roper Bar

Constance Range

Cobar and Mainline

SOUTHERN OCEAN

Steeple Hill

Livingstone

Irvine Island

PERTH

ADELAIDE

MELBOURNE

HOBART

CANBERRA, ACT

SYDNEY

BRISBANE

DARWIN

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

NORTHERN TERRITORY

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

VICTORIA

TASMANIA

NEW SOUTH WALES

QUEENSLAND

Albany

Esperance

Geraldton

Carnarvon

Port Hedland

Broome

Alice Springs

Ceduna

Warrnambool

Wollongong

Newcastle

Port Macquarie

BourkeGrafton

Gladstone

Longreach

Mackay

Townsville

Cairns

Mount Isa

Normanton

Oodnadatta

Mildura

INDONESIA PAPUA NEW GUINEATIMOR SEA

JosephBonaparte

Gulf Gulf ofCarpentaria

TORRES STRAIT

Great Barrier Reef

CORAL SEA

TASMAN SEA

BASS STRAIT

SOUTHERN OCEAN

INDIAN OCEAN

Great Australian Bight

200 m

2000 m

4000 m

200 m

2000 m4000

m

200 m

6000 m

108°

40°

32°

24°

16°

8°

120° 132° 144° 156°

40°

32°

24°

16°

8°144°132°120°

2000 m

4000 m

Inset A

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AUSTRALIAN IN SITUIRON ORE RESOURCES

(Sheet 1: Hematite)2012 EDITION

This map is based on information compiled from publicly available sources on160 Australian hematite-type iron ore deposits. Compilation of data is ongoing.Deposit size is the total tonnage of in situ iron resources in a deposit.In situ resources for each geological region represent aggregates of resourcesin deposits located in that region. It includes deposits in near vicinity of theregion where such deposits are of the same age or where the region extendsbeyond shown boundaries under cover. Geological regions defined here arebased on Geoscience Australia’s Geological Regions Boundaries dataset. Ironore deposit location information used in this map is derived from GeoscienceAustralia’s OZMIN database for mineral deposits, available at:http://www.ga.gov.au/meta/ANZCW0703003393.html

SCALE 1:10 000 000

LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC PROJECTIONCentral Meridian: 134°E Standard Parallels: 18°S, 36°S

Geocentric Datum of Australia

0 500100 200 300 400 Kilometres

HAMERSLEY

EASTPILBARA

CENTRAL PILBARA

SYLVANIA

Port Hedland

Hamersley

Robe River

Cloudbreak Roy Hill

NyidinghuMining Area C

BHPBYandi

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

121°119°117°

21°

23°

Inset A

0 100 km

In situ resources of iron ore by type

Hematite79%

Magnetite21%

In situ resources of iron ore by region

Hamersley91%

Other5%

Eastern Goldfields 1%East Pilbara 1% Central Pilbara 2%

"Other" is made up of resources less than 1%

Iron Ore (Hematite)Iron ore resources by depositMillions of tonnes Deposit count

(92)<50(21)50–100(37)100–1000(9)1000–5000(1)>5000

Iron ore resources by regionMillions of tonnes

<5

5–50

50–500

500–10 000

>10 000