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Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder mine

Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder mine, Australia, mining gold.

Why Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder is famous

The Eastern Goldfields Historical Society dates Paddy Hannan, Thomas Flanagan and Daniel Shea's find to June 1893, about 40 km north-east of Coolgardie. Within about a week more than 1,400 men were working the new field. Great Boulder and Ivanhoe were pegged soon after by the Brookman and Pearce syndicate.1,2,3

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Timeline

  1. June 1893Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie4
  2. 22 to 24 January 1903Goldfields Water Supply Scheme opens5

What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

People

Discovered byDan O'SheaCo-discoverer of the Kalgoorlie field.6Discovered byThomas FlanaganHannan's mate on the June 1893 trip to the Mount Charlotte find.6Discovered byPaddy HannanGold worth several years' wages in a week, then 1,400 men within seven days.6Investigated byAndrew Gibb MaitlandThe state geologist mapped the goldfields for thirty years.7

Mines

Same kind of depositBendigo goldfieldThe Golden Mile was found in 1893. Bendigo's first reefs opened in 1854.1ExamplesSt IvesThe Golden Mile of 1893 and St Ives today: Goldfields gold stretches over 130 years.8

Events

Came out ofGoldfields Water Supply Scheme opensThe Golden Mile's output peaked at 2,064,803 ounces in 1903, the year water arrived.1Led toHannan finds gold at KalgoorlieRead what happened near Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder: Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie.1

Places

Located inKalgoorlie-BoulderGolden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder is about 5 km from Kalgoorlie-Boulder.1Located inCoolgardieGolden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder is about 38 km from Coolgardie.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie-Boulder belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.9

Sources

  1. Kalgoorlie Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
  2. Boulder Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
  3. Wikidata item Q24257072 (Golden Mile mines) Wikidata (CC0)
  4. The Rush for Gold (WA Goldfields) Western Australian Museum
  5. Building a Pipeline (WA Goldfields) Western Australian Museum
  6. Patrick Hannan (Mining and Energy Western Australia exhibition) State Library of Western Australia
  7. Andrew Gibb Maitland State Library of Western Australia
  8. Annual Report on Form 20-F for 2025 Gold Fields Limited (SEC)
  9. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

Pictures on this page: Paddy Hannan.jpg, Library Information Service of Western Australia (Public domain).

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.