Sons of Gwalia mine

 [top], miners hut as it was left in 1963, the open cut with new underground mining, [below], miners hut kitchen, Hover house built in 1898 for manager Herbert Hover,,the old pub closed 1964, 

g,day all, today 1st of june i visited the gwalia mine in leonora and its still exactly how it was left when the mine closed down in 1963, its a historic site and has a museum with all the old assay equipment still in place, lots of buildings and all the mechinery that worked the mine. its called the sons of gwalia mine and because the price of gold is so high a mining company has started mining it again but not open cut and they say there is still 2 million ounces of gold to be dug, they are only getting about 5 grams of gold to the ton but that is good with the new mechinery now days. the mine was founded in 1896 and bought by an english company in 1898 and they sent out a young american mining engineer named Herbert Hover who later became the president of the USA. there are alot of old miners huts still there and when the mine closed they just packed their bags and left everything else as you can see from the pics, Stu