TABLE 3
AUSTRALIA:  RESERVES OF MAJOR MINERAL COMMODITIES IN 2003
Commodity				Reserves
Bauxite		million metric tons		5,500
Black coal:
In situ		billion metric tons		55
Recoverable		do.		39
Brown coal:
In situ		do.		42
Recoverable		do.		38
Cadmium		thousand metric tons		844
Cobalt		do.		1,450
Columbium (niobium)		do.		29
Copper		million metric tons		40
Diamond:
Gem and near gem		million carats		73
Industrial		do.		75
Gold		metric tons		5,380
Iron ore		billion metric tons		12
Lead		million metric tons		19
Lithium		thousand metric tons		167
Magnesite (MgCO3)		million metric tons		344
Manganese ore		do.		124
Mineral sands:
Ilmenite		do.		209
Rutile		do.		21
Zircon		do.		32
Nickel		do.		23
Petroleum, recoverable:
Condensate		billion liters		282
Crude		do.		227
Liquefied petroleum gas		do.		262
Natural gas		billion cubic meters		2,220
Platinum-group metals (Pd, Pt)		metric tons		23
Rare earths (REO plus Y2O3)		million metric tons		1
Silver		thousand metric tons		43
Tantalum		do.		41
Tin		do.		146
Tungsten		do.		9
Uranium, recoverable		do.		675
Vanadium		do.		0
Zinc		million metric tons		35
MgCO3--magnesium carbonate; REO--rare-earth oxides; Pd--palladium;
Pt--platinum; Y2O3--yttrium oxide.
Source:  Geoscience Australia, 2004, Australia's Identified Mineral Resources
2004: Canberra, Australia, Geoscience Australia,  p. 9.  (Modified to no more than
three significant digits.)