Golden Mile

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Golden Mile is a famously rich gold-bearing ore deposit in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, historically one of the world’s largest and most productive goldfields.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf gold ore deposit
goldfield
adjacentTo Kalgoorlie townsite NERFINISHED
commodity gold
contains quartz veins
sulphide ore bodies
continent Australia
country Australia
developedDuring Western Australian gold rush NERFINISHED
discoveredBy Dan Shea NERFINISHED
Paddy Hannan NERFINISHED
Tom Flanagan NERFINISHED
discoveredIn 1893
economicImpact significant to Western Australian economy
geologicalSetting Archean greenstone belt
hasCity Kalgoorlie NERFINISHED
hasEnvironmentalImpact mine waste dumps
open-pit landscape
hasIndustry gold mining
hasMiningOperation Kalgoorlie Super Pit NERFINISHED
hasProcessing cyanide leaching GENERATED
gold milling GENERATED
hasResource gold-bearing sulphides
refractory gold ore
historicalSignificance major contributor to Western Australian gold rush
one of the world’s largest goldfields
influencedDevelopmentOf Goldfields railway infrastructure
Kalgoorlie-Boulder NERFINISHED
isMajorGoldProvinceOf Western Australia NERFINISHED
knownFor high-grade gold ores
large gold production
rich gold-bearing ore
languageOfName English
locatedIn Eastern Goldfields region NERFINISHED
Kalgoorlie NERFINISHED
Western Australia
miningMethod open-pit mining
underground mining
nameOrigin named for richness of gold over about one mile of strike length
near Super Pit NERFINISHED
oreType lode gold deposit
partOf Kalgoorlie-Boulder NERFINISHED
Yilgarn Craton NERFINISHED
region Goldfields-Esperance NERFINISHED
startOfLargeScaleMining 1890s
state Western Australia
timePeriodOfPeakProduction early 20th century
late 20th century open-pit era

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Super Pit primaryOreBody Golden Mile