The Super Pit was born in the late 1980's when Alan Bond started to buy up the mines in the Golden Mile. He did not complete this task but it was finished by KCGM (Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines) . When the planned excavations are completed around 2021 it will be 4 km long, 1.5 km wide & 500 metres deep. The mine produces 400,000 tons of rock to obtain 800,000 ounces of gold, every 5th truck has gold bearing rock. Our tour was 2.5 hrs & really great, we got of the bus twice to look at the mine from the viewing points, drove through the processing plant.
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| Finders Keepers tour bus |
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| The Pink & the yellow truck in for service |
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| The blue truck working |
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| At the bottom of the pit |
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| More action at the bottom of the pit |
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| This is what happens if you get in the road of one of these trucks |
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| Small Processing plant |
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| The road down into the pit |
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| The roads in the pit |
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| An empty truck going down & a full truck coming up |
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| The full truck on way to processing plant |
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| Truck dumping the rock |
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| Another full truck |
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| View of the blasting at 1pm |
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| Dust from the blasting on other side of pit, terraced side of pit |
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| Our truck & Richards at viewing point for blasting |
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| The Exchanged Hotel 1898 |
One of the many pubs in Kalgoorlie,
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| Bolder town hall |
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| Mt Charlote mine, under ground mine not open pit |
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| Nugget of gold, what Kalgoorlie it is all about |
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| Nuggets & GOLD bar |
Ian & I enjoyed this tour, the photos don't do the pit size justice, it is just enormas. We left kalgoorlie & moved onto Norseman then Esperance, you will get a new entry when we return from Cape La Grand NP. Cheers Marilyn
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