Kalgoorlie

The Fimiston Open Pit, known as the Super Pit, is Australia's largest open cut gold mine.
The super pit is located off the Goldfields Highway on the South East edge of Kalgoorlie.
Is approx. 3.5 klm.long 1.5klm. wide and 570 metres deep, at these dimensions, it's large enough to be seen from space.
It produces 850,000 ounces (28 tonnes) of gold per year, and employs around 550 employees on site.
We had hoped to view it from the viewing platform alongside the pit wall, sadly it was closed for maintenance, we did get to view a partial part of it from the mines museum, this was the view from the top of the lift shaft at the museum, we will travel here again one day hopefully it will be open to view