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Kalgoorlie's Super Pit aims to reclaim crown as Australia's biggest-producing gold mine
By Jarrod Lucas
Australian Broadcasting Corp., Sydney
Saturday, August 23, 2025
From the public viewing platform overlooking Kalgoorlie's Super Pit gold mine, Greg Hewitt reflects on a four-decade career as an underground miner.
He spent 25 years lugging around a heavy rock drill, known as an air-leg, chasing rich gold deposits at what was once considered the richest square mile on Earth.
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The 80-year-old calls it a "dying trade" due to the difficult, dangerous nature of the work and the "calculated risks" he took every day.
"There are plenty of blokes in the cemetery ... they would be in stunned disbelief," he said of the 4.5 kilometre-long, 1.5km-wide, and 600 metre-deep Super Pit, which is so big it is visible from space.
"They just wouldn't believe the effort and time that's been put in for that elusive bit of gold ... I didn't think it [the Super Pit] would last -- no way, Mate." ...
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