Top five gold mines of Australia profiled
A desert-based gold mining processing plant (Credit: Steve Lovegrove/Shutterstock) 5. Kalgoorlie Super Pit. In 1893, the discovery of almost 100 ounces of gold in present day Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia led to a gold rush, followed by the unearthing of one of the world's richest gold deposits ― the Golden Mile. The gold …