Natural Resources

Australia has natural resources of the following commodities – petroleum, oil, natural gas, bauxite, black coal, copper, gold, iron ore, ilmenite, lead, manganese, rare earth elements, tantalum, tin, uranium and zinc, cobalt, diamonds (both gem and industrial), lithium, phosphate, rutile, silver, tungsten, zircon, brown coal, magnesite, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, platinum group metals, shale oil, and vanadium.