Australia is home to some of the largest resource extraction operations in the world, dominated primarily by massive iron ore, gold, and coal mega-mines. Prominent examples include the massive open-pit iron ore operations managed by Rio Tinto, BHP, and Fortescue in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, alongside major bulk commodity and base metal projects like the Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine in South Australia and massive coal complexes in the Bowen Basin of Queensland.