The large-scale comprehensive industrial base planned by the Ministry of Industry is located to the west of the border between West Australia and South Australia, around the small city of Leonora and the northeastern part of Perth.
The area is rich in mineral resources, with large coal mines, iron mines, oil fields, two large gold mines, and a nickel mine nearby.
Further north of this region, there are super-large iron and gold mines, as well as manganese mines; and to the northeast, there are bauxite mines, copper mines, and more.
Such rich mineral resources are destined to make this a great place to develop an integrated comprehensive industrial base.
In fact, Australia later had non-ferrous metal and iron and steel industry bases in this area, without wasting the mineral resources of the land.
Of course, the initially planned industrial base is not that large, and its scale is only the same as the conventional industrial base in the southeast.
