The State of Queensland occupies the northeastern 22% of the Australian continent; it has an area of 1,738,000 km2, more than half of which lies in the tropics. The State Geological Survey, with a staff of 70 geologists and geo-physicists, is based at Brisbane, the capital city. Nearly all of the 116 sheet areas on the 1:250,000 scale have been mapped since 1950, by cooperation of the survey with the Federal Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology, and Geophysics.
Gold was the first metal to be won in important quantities in Queensland, but today ranks only eighth in value; famous mines of the gold period were Gympie, Charters Towers, and Mt. Morgan; the total gold extracted exceeds 20 million fine ounces. In 1931 Mt. Isa came into production as a silver-lead-zinc mine, but copper is now its main metal and it has the largest output of the underground mines in Australia. Mary Kathleen produced 4010 tons of uranium oxide between 1958 and 1963. Exploitation of the Weipa bauxite deposits...
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Hill, D. (1975). Australia—queensland. In: World Regional Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31081-1_9
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