Monday, 16 February 2015

Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Kalgoorlie is the largest gold mining town, with gold extraction still very active. In the 1980s, the numerous mining leases were bought up in order to blow the whole lot up and create a huge crater, making it much easier to extract the gold using explosives and enormous digger trucks.

Again, many fine buildings in town and an excellent museum, including exhibits of real gold nuggets.

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