We didn’t find it difficult to spend an hour in Peak Hill. The original gold mines on Peak Hill NSW
operated between 1893 and 1917, producing about 60,000 ounces from 500,000 tonnes of rock. They were reopened as opencut in 1996 to 2002 earning $55,000,000 from 4.9 million tonnes of rock. The achievements of modern machinery.
The site is just a mere 300m from the town centre, and you can wander the site freely, which contains 5 opencut mines. It was great to be this close, and couldn’t help scouring the ground for that missed nugget as they say there is still more gold in the remainder of the hill to be found.
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