Work and Travel Australia by Mining for backpacker gold
Interested? PIN NOW, read later! Australia! The biggest island in the world! Everything is big there… Including its mining industry. There is an extraordinary amount of underground resources and companies dig it out all over the place: coal? Iron ore? Oil and gas? They have it all. Mining is everywhere. And I kid you not, it is the best way to work and travel Australia, all you need is a ton of patience! The story started around 170 years ago when a guy stumbled upon a chunk of gold in the state of Victoria… All of a sudden, people from all over the world flocked to this new Promised Land to get their share of the bounty, creating a real pioneer style gold rush. Arch desert condition, primitive tools and fierce rivalry were the rules and a fair few didn’t make it alive. But others, the lucky ones, did get what they came for. Somewhere else in the desert, aboriginal people saw white men digging deep holes in the middle of nowhere. These white men would bring up from unde...