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Outback Gold Mine

Come on a virtual photographic journey with us and see a small working gold mine in the outback, and an old timer work his mine and extract and melt down his gold. This is a privately owned mine, so we can't take you there, but there are lots of old mines to see in the Murchison goldfields.

Of course, unless you plan to become a miner yourself, most of the gold you find with your metal detectors will be in the form of nuggets. You'll just dig them up where the detector indicates, and they'll be solid little lumps of golden gleaming joy.

Old roo shooting Toyota - good for carrying prospecting gear
Old roo shooting Toyota - good for carrying prospecting gear



Old head frame from a 500 foot mine shaft Lots of old mining equipment laying around
Left - Old head frame from a 500 foot mine shaft
Right - Lots of old gold mining equipment laying around



A machine used to crush rock containing the gold Panning the crushed rock with mercury which picks up the gold dust
Left - A machine used to crush rock containing the gold
Right - Panning the crushed rock with mercury which picks up the gold dust



The mercury containing the gold 7Separating gold from mercury in a Retort pot
Left - The mercury containing the gold
Right - Separating gold from mercury in a Retort pot



The mercury then goes back into the water, leaving the gold behind Close up of mercury going back into the water, the gold is in the Retort pot
Left - The mercury then goes back into the water, leaving the gold behind
Right - Close up of mercury going back into the water, the gold is in the Retort pot



1 11Gold is left behind, after the mercury has been separated from it Heating the gold up to make it a solid again
Left - Gold is left behind, after the mercury has been separated from it
Right - Heating the gold up to make it a solid again



After melting the gold, you are left with a manufactured nugget
There really is gold out there.... some people find nuggets almost straight away. Some day we will find the "big one", but we will never ever give up gold prospecting.... it's in our blood.


Pioneer Prospecting & Outback Supplies
72 Hepburn Street, Mount Magnet.
(On the main street next to the Commercial Hotel)
Po Box 15, Mount Magnet, Western Australia, 6638

Ph (08) 99634222 Email: pioneerprospecting@bigpond.com
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