The common wealth of Australia The rich geology of a sun burnt land
industrial urbanism | mining by martin abbott in contrast to australia ’ s large coastal cities are the small remote mining towns in australia ’ s isolated interior . taking the mining boom as a point of departure , this article explores australia ’ s outback urbanism , in the process introducing the towns at the centre of this surge in mineral exports .
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Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) Superpit 4 July 2012: the Super Pit produces around 850,000 ounces of gold a year; the town’s proximity to Australia’s largest open pit gold mine highlights the stark hold geology exerts over the town.
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