Quote Originally Posted by Blademaster View Post
What exactly is there to mine in Western Australia? I know I rag on Oz a lot, but I've looked at maps, and Western Australia just looks like a colossal desert wasteland to me, sans a few parts of the coast. What is there to export besides several billion tons of sand?
Fuckloads of Iron Ore, Oil, Natural Gas and Gold, amongst a bunch of other things, but those are probably the biggest ones I'd say.

The aforementioned desert wasteland aka the Outback is full of minerals and iron ore etc. A lot of the oil and gas come from rigs just off the coast, I believe.