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Gold continued

Introduction

Prospecting for gold

Underground mining 1900-1972

Sons of Gwalia gold mine 1900-1960

Open cut mining

Prospectors continued

The gold rush was well and truly over by the time of Federation but the Western Australian goldfields continued to attract prospectors well into the twentieth century.

 

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