Article: Old Gympie's New Gold Mine.(Brief Article)

Old Gympie is not a miner with a limp. It's one of the most significant rediscoveries of gold-in-quartz in a century. The Gympie Eldorado gold mine, located north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, was discovered in the 1860s and became famous for its "jewellers' shops," an area where the gold forms in seams shooting through white quartz. Because of its rarity, gold-in-quartz is more collected as art than worn as jewelry. The jewellers' shops were soon ...

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