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Great Boulder mine

Great Boulder mine, Australia, mining gold.

Why Great Boulder mine is famous

Sam Pearce pegged it as the second lease shortly after Hannan's Find in 1893, and the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society calls it fabulously rich.1,2

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Timeline

  1. June 1893Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie3

Great Boulder mine today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

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People

Owned byClaude de BernalesIn 1936 he won control of one of the Golden Mile's richest mines.4

Events

Led toHannan finds gold at KalgoorlieRead what happened near Great Boulder mine: Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie.1

Places

Located inKalgoorlie-BoulderGreat Boulder mine is about 6 km from Kalgoorlie-Boulder.1Located inCoolgardieGreat Boulder mine is about 38 km from Coolgardie.1

Sources

  1. Boulder Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
  2. Wikidata item Q21958570 (Great Boulder Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. The Rush for Gold (WA Goldfields) Western Australian Museum
  4. Claude de Bernales State Library of Western Australia

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.