Phosphate Department for Energy and Mining
In Australia the Middle Cambrian phosphorite deposits of the Georgina Basin, Queensland and Northern Territory (NT) host 90% of inferred phosphate rock resource of which the total in 2011 was 1813Mt. Australias largest deposit is Wonar in the NT, a sedimentary phosphorite with a 2011 resource of 1552Mt 11% P 2 O 5 .