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CUE Energy
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Sandfire Resources NL
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MEO Australia
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Castlemaine Goldfields
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L & M Energy
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Dragon Mining
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Newcrest Mining
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Flinders Mines
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BHP Billiton
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Rio Tinto
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About the Sector
The resources sector of the Australian share market represents one of the few such ways for investors to gain exposure to a broad range of companies with operations across all facets of the natural resources industry.
The majority of companies have operations and activities in Australia with a significant and growing number engaging in overseas activities, including major mining operations.
The prolonged lift in commodity prices reflects the strong and growing demand for commodities by high growth economes such as China as they undergo rapid industralisation and urbanisation.
Hence investors now have a vibrant global resources sector exploring for and developing a wide range of commodities, with the expectation of vastly better returns than has been the case for the past several decades.
