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The Kalgoorlie Goldfields

Miner's Right country · the Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie, Boulder, WA, Australia
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Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Kalgoorlie Goldfields: still unexplained.

Nuggets from the richest square mile of gold-bearing earth ever worked

The law of this ground: WA Miner's Right (inexpensive), prospecting and detecting lawful on much Crown land; keep your gold, mind active leases.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
Nuggets from the richest square mile of gold-bearing earth ever worked
The account

The Golden Mile at Kalgoorlie is, ounce for acre, the richest goldfield the world has known, and the desert around it is still studded with nuggets the old timers walked past. A Miner's Right opens the Crown ground to anyone with a detector and water enough to last the day. The flies are merciless. The gold is real.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • What you can keep: Nuggets from the richest square mile of gold-bearing earth ever worked. Confirm the site's current rules and any day fee before you go.
  • Where: Kalgoorlie, Boulder, WA, Australia. WA Miner's Right (inexpensive), prospecting and detecting lawful on much Crown land; keep your gold, mind active leases.
  • Best practice: record anything notable, leave the ground as you found it, and check the latest access notices before you travel.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • What you can keep: Nuggets from the richest square mile of gold-bearing earth ever worked. Confirm the site's current rules and any day fee before you go.
  • Where: Kalgoorlie, Boulder, WA, Australia. WA Miner's Right (inexpensive), prospecting and detecting lawful on much Crown land; keep your gold, mind active leases.
  • Best practice: record anything notable, leave the ground as you found it, and check the latest access notices before you travel.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.

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Chart position -30.749°, 121.466° (approx.) View on the Map