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Figure 1: Advanced projects by location<br />

Kitan oil<br />

Montara/Skua oil<br />

Darwin<br />

Karara hematite<br />

and magnetite iron ore<br />

Extension Hill DSO iron ore<br />

Dampier–Bunbury<br />

5B gas pipeline<br />

Kwinana Processing Plant<br />

TiO 2 pigment titanium minerals<br />

Worsley Refinery Efficiency &<br />

Growth Project alumina<br />

LEGEND<br />

NWS North Rankin B LNG<br />

NWS CWLH oil<br />

Pluto LNG<br />

Gorgon LNG<br />

Sino Iron Project iron ore<br />

Capital expenditure<br />

$0–100m<br />

$101–500m<br />

$501–1000m<br />

>$1000m<br />

Processing<br />

facility<br />

Mine/<br />

platform<br />

Reindeer gas field,<br />

Devil Creek gas processing plant<br />

Utah Point Berth<br />

iron ore infrastructure<br />

Charters Towers gold<br />

Argyle diamonds<br />

Ernest Henry<br />

underground copper<br />

Abbot Point coal infrastructure<br />

Western Australian<br />

Iron Ore infrastructure<br />

Goonyella to Abbot Point X50 coal infrastructure<br />

Nullagine iron ore<br />

Coppabella to Ingsdon<br />

Boyne Island smelter aluminium<br />

Rapid Growth 5 iron ore<br />

rail duplication coal infrastructure<br />

Chichester hub 55 iron ore<br />

Moranbah Ammonium Nitrate<br />

Integrated Isaac Plains Project coal<br />

Middlemount (stage 1) coal<br />

Nicholas Downs manganese<br />

Clermont coal<br />

Yarwun refinery stage 2 alumina<br />

Brockman 4<br />

Kestrel coal<br />

Rocklands to Kabra rail duplication coal infrastructure<br />

Project iron ore<br />

Talc redesign<br />

South West Queensland Curragh coal Blackwater System<br />

nickel<br />

Pipeline (stages 2 and 3)<br />

Power Upgrade coal infrastructure<br />

Moomba to Sydney gas pipeline<br />

Queensland gas pipeline<br />

Duketon gold<br />

Edna May gold<br />

gas pipeline<br />

Talinga stage 2 coal seam gas<br />

St Ives (Athena underground) gold<br />

Brisbane<br />

Cameby Down coal<br />

Boggabri opencut coal<br />

Mt Weld rare earths<br />

Brisbane coal terminal expansion<br />

Mount Arthur coal<br />

Darling Range Super Pit gold Eucla Basin<br />

Narrabri (stage 1) coal<br />

North DSO<br />

mineral sands Honeymoon Moolarben stage 1 coal<br />

Minimbah Bank Third Rail Line (stage 1)<br />

bauxite Aldiss/Randalls<br />

uranium<br />

Northparkes<br />

coal infrastructure<br />

Perth (phase 1) gold<br />

Snapper E48 copper<br />

Blakefield South coal<br />

mineral<br />

Mangoola coal<br />

Adelaide sands<br />

Sydney Kooragang island coal terminal<br />

Cadia East gold<br />

Canberra expansions<br />

Newcastle export terminal coal infrastructure<br />

Mount Cattlin<br />

lithium<br />

Melbourne<br />

Metropolitan longwall coal<br />

Eastern gas pipeline<br />

BassGas<br />

Turrum gas<br />

(Yolla Mid Life Enhancement)<br />

Kipper (stage 1) gas<br />

natural gas<br />

proposed gas pipeline<br />

capital city<br />

Micro<br />

LNG plant<br />

Hobart<br />

Source: Lampard 2010<br />

As Table 1 shows, Western Australia’s 29 advanced projects account for $86 billion worth of<br />

investment (79 per cent). Projects include Gorgon LNG, Pluto LNG, BHP Billiton’s Rapid Growth<br />

Project 5, North West Shelf North Rankin B, Sino Iron Project, and Worsley Efficiency and<br />

Growth Project. The projects range in value from $2 billion to $43 billion.<br />

Table 1:<br />

Advanced projects, number, cost ($ million), sector and state and territory,<br />

April 2010<br />

Energy projects<br />

No.<br />

Cost<br />

($m)<br />

No.<br />

Mining<br />

Cost<br />

($m)<br />

Minerals<br />

processing<br />

No.<br />

Cost<br />

($m)<br />

No.<br />

Total<br />

Cost<br />

($m)<br />

Western Australia 6 64,111 21 19,688 2 2,620 29 86,419<br />

Queensland* 16 6,807 3 1,646 3 2,860 22 11,313<br />

New South Wales* 13 5,158 3 2,232 0 0 16 7,390<br />

Northern Territory 2 795 0 0 0 0 2 795<br />

South Australia 1 138 1 390 0 0 2 528<br />

Victoria 2 2,670 0 0 0 0 2 2,670<br />

Tasmania 1 345 0 0 1 150 2 495<br />

Australia 41 80,024 28 23,956 6 5,630 75 109,610<br />

Source: <strong>Taskforce</strong> analysis of Lampard 2010<br />

* Some projects cross state borders<br />

4 | <strong>National</strong> <strong>Resources</strong> <strong>Sector</strong> <strong>Employment</strong> <strong>Taskforce</strong>: <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Paper</strong>

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