Perth Mint

310 Hay St, Perth , Western Australia, Australia - Phone: 61 8 9421 7218
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    Gold! Heirisson Island take 2

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    There was gold in them there outback and it was processed at the Perth Royal Mint during the 19th century Western Australian gold rush. We took the tour of the Mint and got the chance to see a bar of gold poured. It was quite the show and afterwords Daniel said he did not know that (gold could be melted and poured into molds) but it was really neat …

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    Minted...

    Today i went downtown to check out the Perth Mint. The Mint includes the world's largest gold bars and largest gold nugget collection. The Perth Mint was responsible for producing and distributing gold sovereigns for Britain's colonies from 1899 …

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    Worth Our Weight In Gold

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    ... , Sarah, so she needed time to recover. We took a walk up to the Museum of Western Australia where we learnt a bit about the history of how Perth came about, and how it had progressed over the years. It didn't mention much about the Aborigional ...

  • 2

    Australia - Perth

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    ... We decided that we should see a few more of Perths tourist attractions before we headed south so we made our way to the Perth Mint (PIC), Australia's oldest operating mint and one of the oldest in the world. It was set up to manufacture coins, bullion ...

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    Perth and Fremantle

    e flight, covering almost 4000km took us from Sydney NSW to Perth WA. Somewhere over the red centre of Australia whilst flying at 30,000 feet we travelled back in time 2 hours, it made my eyeballs bleed, but apart from that it was fine and we arrived ...

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    Indian Pacific from Sydney - Perth

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    ... I had a milkshake and generally here they do make milkshakes rather well! The next morning we started to approach Perth finally. In Australia, they tend to be fussy about moving diseases and bugs that affect fruit, vegetables and other various things ...

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    I Like to ride my bicycle, i like to ride my bike!

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    ... very random though! Sadly he left Perth the next day, but we managed a night out on the town before he left!  Visited Perth Mint. Watched liquid gold being poured to make a gold bar; tried, difficulty, to lift a gold bar, and also found out ...

  • 6

    The Mild Mild West

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    ... as we hit west coast time. A Swiss taxi driver took us to our hotel and unsurprisingly informed us that Perth was the best city in Australia something we'd heard from all the other taxi drivers about their respective towns. We arrived at the Grand ...

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    An unexpectedly cool city...and another mishap

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    ... Dutch", in Dutch (i.e. jij bent vast Nederlands). Turns out, he's a tourist, just like me, from Limburg, who's travelling around Australia. Really, the Dutch are everywhere! I had a rather weird day today. I'd booked myself on a Swan River wine cruise ...

  • 8

    Australia

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    ... We visited Freemantle known to locals as Freeo and caught up with a friend we had met diving in Thailand. Evie was now back in Australia and together with her family, had made us very welcome. Thank you for the great fun BBQ on our last night in Perth, ...

  • 9

    Things to do in Perth

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    ... worth over $1.3million in weight of gold! Have been continuing our cultural theme today and have just visited the West Australian Museum. It is all about people/places/creatures in West Australia and has some fantastic displays. Well worth a ...

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    A taste of the West

    ... church boundaries. Something that you would never expect to find in the West or even anywhere in Australia. Interesting & also worth a look. Back to Perth in the afternoon as Byron & I had a date that evening at Gloucester Park, that ...