People/prospector

Jim and Jimmy Larcombe (Golden Eagle nugget)

Jim and Jimmy Larcombe (Golden Eagle nugget), prospector, from Australia. Linked to gold.

The lucky break

Pictured with the huge Golden Eagle nugget, found near Coolgardie in 1931.1

Legacy

The find prompted a rush of over a thousand prospectors to the area (State Library of WA).1

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Mines

DiscoveredCoolgardie goldfieldA nugget found in 1931 sent a thousand prospectors to Coolgardie.1

Sources

  1. Gold (Mining and Energy Western Australia exhibition) 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.