Kalgoorlie

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Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie

In the winter of 1893, prospectors Paddy Hannan, Tom Flanagan, and Dan Shea were travelling north east of Coolgardie (where gold had been discovered the previous year) , when one of their horses cast a shoe.
During the halt in their journey, the men noticed signs of gold in the area around the foot of what is now the Mount Charlotte gold mine, located on a small hill north of the current city of Kalgoorlie, and decided to stay and investigate.
On 17 June 1893, Hannan filed a Reward Claim, leading to hundreds of men swarming to the area in search of gold, and Kalgoorlie, originally called Hannan's Find, was born.
Now a city of around 30,00 people, 600km east of Perth, Kalgoorlie-Boulder is the fifth largest city in Western Australia.
It's estimated that about $AU 156 billion worth of gold has been mined from the 'Golden Mile' in the last 130 years.

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ISO: 320
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