Australian copper mines produced some 960,000 tonnes of the red metal in 2019 from 36 operational assets spread across the country.
As the home of the world’s second largest reserves of copper, and the sixth largest producer of the red metal behind the US, Australia has dozens of productive copper mines.
Government data from 2019 shows there were 36 operational mines that year though since then more have come online, and plenty more projects are in the exploration and development stages.
Some 960,000 tonnes of copper were produced in 2019 from those 36 operational mines, which are spread across most of Australia’s jurisdictions.
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