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This amazing video footage of the "Super Pit" was taken by fellow machinery forum member Allistair Cooke during his recent year long working holiday in Australia



This renowned Kalgoorlie-Boulder landmark is currently 3.5 km long, 1.5 km wide and 360 m deep, and will eventually stretch 3.9 km long, 1.6 km wide and reach a depth exceeding 500 m. Since 1893, when Irish-man Paddy Hannan first made his famous discovery, more than 50 million ounces (1,550 t) of gold have been mined from the Golden Mile.

When you think how big those excavators and mining trucks are when you are close to them and yet in this film they just look like little Tonka toys!

A truly awesome sight and one that I would love to visit one day.

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