Goldfields

 

 

Kalgoorlie
Home of the former gold rush, which still goes on since a hundert years. mainly miners live and work here

The superpit
A big hole in the ground, an opencut mine for gold, 2km away from Kalgoorlie. something like 800m deep with the trucks carry around 200t. (similar size of those of tom price mine)
click on it for magnification

Having a lunch during a walk in the landscape during a uni field trip
(geological: Granotoid intrusion in talc-altered komatiite flow..;)

Lake Lefroy
Hugh dry salt lake on the plain of the Yilgarn Craton

Sunset at the end of the day

 

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