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The following extended table shows that the Mersey-Lyell Region had the largest area of rateable land used for quarrying and mining in Tasmania (19,965 hectares), largely due to the large area of land used for mining and quarrying in the West Coast local government area (12,477 hectares).

The West Coast local government area had the smallest area of land used for primary production in the Mersey-Lyell Region (3,720 hectares).

RATEABLE LAND USE AREAS, Mersey-Lyell local government areas - as at May 2003(a)(b)(c)
	Commercial	Industrial	Primary production	Public service/ local gov.
Local government area	ha	ha	ha	ha
Burnie	65	607	43,125	743
Central Coast	118	53	41,405	446
Circular Head	388	179	135,863	4,061
Devonport	105	299	5,859	386
Kentish	332	286	45,445	125
King Island	17	73	91,895	244
Latrobe	61	251	29,241	679
Waratah/Wynyard	65	76	97,597	710
West Coast	95	45	3,720	1,229
Total	1,245	8,068	494,149	8,622
Tasmania	5,634	8,068	2,420,950	32,831
For footnotes see end of table.

RATEABLE LAND USE AREAS, Mersey-Lyell local government areas - as at May 2003(a)(b)(c) - continued
	Quarrying and mining	Residential	Sporting facility/ recreation	Vacant land	Total land(c)
Local government area	ha	ha	ha	ha	ha
Burnie	325	3,676	320	918	49,779
Central Coast	269	6,824	446	2,195	51,755
Circular Head	112	2,480	562	834	144,480
Devonport	30	1,937	276	801	9,693
Kentish	256	5,207	762	1,913	54,326
King Island	25	950	206	1,015	94,424
Latrobe	4	2,920	931	1,210	35,296
Waratah/Wynyard	6,467	5,264	450	1,371	111,999
West Coast	12,477	872	278	919	19,634
Total	19,965	30,130	4,230	11,175	571,387
Tasmania	23,055	172,702	120,095	104,086	2,887,420
(a) Areas given in hectares and relate to rateable properties only. (b) Estimates have been rounded and minor discrepancies may occur between sums of component items and totals. (c) Total land includes data from the entire table. Source: Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.