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Ivanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie

Ivanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie, Australia, mining gold.

Why Ivanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie is famous

Sam Pearce's original discovery and the first of 17 leases secured by the Brookman and Pearce syndicate, per the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society.1,2

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Timeline

  1. June 1893Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie3

Ivanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie today

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Events

Led toHannan finds gold at KalgoorlieRead what happened near Ivanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie: Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie.1

Places

Located inKalgoorlie-BoulderIvanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie is about 5 km from Kalgoorlie-Boulder.1Located inCoolgardieIvanhoe mine, Kalgoorlie is about 37 km from Coolgardie.1

Sources

  1. Boulder Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
  2. Wikidata item Q21958276 (Ivanhoe Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. The Rush for Gold (WA Goldfields) Western Australian Museum

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.