Australian Iron Ore Resources and Production Estimates

Australian iron ore resource estimates compiled by Geoscience Australia. The data includes approximately 400 million tons of demonstrated reserves, 200 million tons of inferred reserves, and a large tonnage of latent resources. Production has historically come from the Middleback Ranges in South Australia and Yampi Sound in Western Australia.

Use Cases

• Forecasting domestic iron ore supply longevity based on demonstrated reserves and consumption rates mentioned in the description
• Mapping historical production centers based on the mentioned locations of Middleback Ranges and Yampi Sound
• Assessing the economic potential of marginal and latent resources described in the dataset
• Comparing Australian iron ore endowment with other global regions as referenced in the description

Strengths

• Provides specific tonnage figures for multiple resource categories (e.g., 400M tons demonstrated reserves)
• Includes historical context on primary production locations
• Contains a future consumption projection (9 million tons by 1970)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last updated 2026-05-14 05:08:04.541799; freshness should be verified

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 05:08:04.541799

Geography

Australia and its Territories