And now for some plagerism...
‘In the early days the town was simply named Hannan’s or Hannan’s Find. Hannan’s find drew attention to an area containing an ore body that later became known simply as “The Golden Mile”.
Today there are about 50 mines operating within the Goldfields district. About half of these are gold mines, including the massive Super Pit, which exploits the most productive square mile of gold-bearing ore ever discovered anywhere in the world. Nickel, chrysoprase, copper, granite, lime, salt, sand and silver are also of industrial interest here.’
About the Super Pit:
‘The massive Super Pit, Australia’s largest open cut gold mine was established in 1989 and was the brainchild of Allan Bond. Western Australia supplies 75% of Australia’s total gold productions and about 8% of the world’s gold production.
It takes seven 220-tonne truckloads of rock to produce a 2-ounce nugget.
More than 50,000,000 ounces of gold have already been mined on the golden mile.
About 85 million tonnes of ore and waste are removed per year – that’s 232,000-tonnes per day.
Ore carrying trucks used at the Super Pit are the biggest of their type in use in an Australian gold mine. The new Cattepillar 793C costs $4,000,000 each. They weigh a massive 376-tonnes and are 6.4m high and 7.4m wide. They travel at a top speed of 54.3 km and carry 220-tonnes of ore in one load. Each tyre costs $26,000 to replace.
The Super Pit’s mine life is further estimated at a further 16 years. At that time the size of the pit will be 3.8 km long, 2km wide and half a kilometer deep and more than 17 million ounces of gold will have been extracted.”
At the Super Pit lookout I see, again, that a little boy’s fascination with big toys starts early. As soon as he could get away from mum he made a beeline straight towards it.
‘In the early days the town was simply named Hannan’s or Hannan’s Find. Hannan’s find drew attention to an area containing an ore body that later became known simply as “The Golden Mile”.
Today there are about 50 mines operating within the Goldfields district. About half of these are gold mines, including the massive Super Pit, which exploits the most productive square mile of gold-bearing ore ever discovered anywhere in the world. Nickel, chrysoprase, copper, granite, lime, salt, sand and silver are also of industrial interest here.’
About the Super Pit:
‘The massive Super Pit, Australia’s largest open cut gold mine was established in 1989 and was the brainchild of Allan Bond. Western Australia supplies 75% of Australia’s total gold productions and about 8% of the world’s gold production.
It takes seven 220-tonne truckloads of rock to produce a 2-ounce nugget.
More than 50,000,000 ounces of gold have already been mined on the golden mile.
About 85 million tonnes of ore and waste are removed per year – that’s 232,000-tonnes per day.
Ore carrying trucks used at the Super Pit are the biggest of their type in use in an Australian gold mine. The new Cattepillar 793C costs $4,000,000 each. They weigh a massive 376-tonnes and are 6.4m high and 7.4m wide. They travel at a top speed of 54.3 km and carry 220-tonnes of ore in one load. Each tyre costs $26,000 to replace.
The Super Pit’s mine life is further estimated at a further 16 years. At that time the size of the pit will be 3.8 km long, 2km wide and half a kilometer deep and more than 17 million ounces of gold will have been extracted.”
At the Super Pit lookout I see, again, that a little boy’s fascination with big toys starts early. As soon as he could get away from mum he made a beeline straight towards it.
‘Little boys, big toys’
‘The Super Pit – a very big hole’
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