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Hosting rock formations more than three billion years of age, the Pilbara region of north-central Western Australia is one of the world’s most richly mineralised areas.

The Pilbara region also hosts Australia’s oldest granite-greenstone terrane known to exist on the continent. The rocks areso old that they are internationally significant.

This is a key reason why the Pilbara spurred the first WA gold rush back in the 1880s – there’s just nowhere else with rocks so likely to boast gold.

And the volume of gold the Pilbara has boasted is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

Since alluvial gold and gold nuggets were discovered at Whim Creek all the way back in 1887 (or even earlier) and since the Pilbara Goldfields region was established a year later on October 1, 1888, the area has seen in excess of 150 continuous years of gold exploration.

The importance of the area was recognised by the Commonwealth almost immediately upon the first official discovery. By 1891, a train line connected Marble Bar and Port Hedland – an impressive feat in those still early-settler days.

Gold and more

Consider also that the Pilbara is the heart of the iron ore export economy, that its coastal margins are home to some of the southern hemisphere’s largest oil and gas deposits, and that the Pilbara is now also a bustling lithium hotspot.

Hi, how have you been here?

Hosting rock formations more than three billion years of age, the Pilbara region of north-central Western Australia is one of the world’s most richly mineralised areas.

The Pilbara region also hosts Australia’s oldest granite-greenstone terrane known to exist on the continent. The rocks areso old that they are internationally significant.

This is a key reason why the Pilbara spurred the first WA gold rush back in the 1880s – there’s just nowhere else with rocks so likely to boast gold.

And the volume of gold the Pilbara has boasted is nothing short of awe-inspiring.

Since alluvial gold and gold nuggets were discovered at Whim Creek all the way back in 1887 (or even earlier) and since the Pilbara Goldfields region was established a year later on October 1, 1888, the area has seen in excess of 150 continuous years of gold exploration.

The importance of the area was recognised by the Commonwealth almost immediately upon the first official discovery. By 1891, a train line connected Marble Bar and Port Hedland – an impressive feat in those still early-settler days.

Gold and more

Consider also that the Pilbara is the heart of the iron ore export economy, that its coastal margins are home to some of the southern hemisphere’s largest oil and gas deposits, and that the Pilbara is now also a bustling lithium hotspot.