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Lake View and Star mine

Lake View and Star mine, Australia, mining gold.

Why Lake View and Star mine is famous

One of the Golden Mile leases at Boulder. Only the coordinates are verified (Wikidata item Lake View Mine); the history of the company still needs a primary page.1

Timeline

  1. June 1893Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie2

Lake View and Star mine today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Events

Led toHannan finds gold at KalgoorlieRead what happened near Lake View and Star mine: Hannan finds gold at Kalgoorlie.1

Places

Located inKalgoorlie-BoulderLake View and Star mine is about 5 km from Kalgoorlie-Boulder.1Located inCoolgardieLake View and Star mine is about 38 km from Coolgardie.1

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q21958210 (Lake View Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. 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.