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New South Wales

Fifield platinum field

Mineral locality Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold

Also reported: platinum.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Australia's only significant alluvial platinum deposit, deep leads worked from the 1890s

Well documented curiosity in Australian economic geology.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

old shafts

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