Is it legal to collect at Gwalia WA: Sons of Gwalia ghost town?

Restricted. The historic precinct is a managed heritage site and museum, everything in and around the cottages stays put, detecting the surrounding goldfields requires a WA Miner's Right and ground open to prospecting, not the townsite

What can you find at Gwalia WA: Sons of Gwalia ghost town?

eyes-only: furnished abandoned cottages, State Hotel, mine headframe, bottle and tin scatter through the townsite

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Gwalia WA

Sons of Gwalia ghost town

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Also reported: eyes-only: furnished abandoned cottages, State Hotel, mine headframe.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Company town of the Sons of Gwalia mine (1897-1963, once managed by Herbert Hoover), emptied almost overnight when the mine closed in December 1963

Township, Hoover House museum and preserved miners' cottages documented, abandoned-in-place household material is the town's core exhibit

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Open pit edge nearbyExtreme heat, very remote

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