Gold Demand
Links:
Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT)
Department of Economic Development and Tourism
University of Tasmania - School of Earth Sciences
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australian Government Geoscience Portal
Association of Mining and Exploration Companies
Australian Securities Exchange
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Mineral Exploration Technologies (CRC AMET)
Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration (CRC LEME)
Mining Industry Consultants Association
Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research Centre
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies 2005/2006
Tasmania has two main gold mines, Henty, and Beaconsfield. A small amount of gold ore is produced as a secondary product by the Rosebery mine and concentrate produced at Mt Lyell contains gold but is not separated from the other minerals.
Graph 1: Tasmanian Gold Production in Tonnes
Source: Mineral Resources Tasmania, Annual Reviews 1997-98 to 2005-06
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