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Beaconsfield Gold mine owners ‘draining the swamp’ for $30m gold haul
Suggestions from locals that the owners of the Beaconsfield Gold Mine in northern Tasmania search a nearby contaminated wetland could lead to a $30 million windfall.
Key points:
- The mine shut down in 2012 and was bought last year for $2m
- The new owners could be sitting on a new “gold mine” worth $30m
- They are hoping to extract the gold from contaminated soil in nearby wetlands
The owners of the mine have begun removing 100,000 tonnes of contaminated soil from nearby wetlands, in the hope of extracting millions of dollars worth of gold.
London listed NQ Minerals, got a pleasant surprise when they listened to a suggestion from locals to test the swamp at the east of the town for gold.
Since the 1870s, untreated water from the mine was pumped…
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