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Article: Perth Mint.(in Perth, Australia)(Company Profile)(Brief Article)
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- Mining Journal
- Article date:
- August 31, 2001
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The Perth Mint, located in the heart of the city, is Australia's specialist precious metals mint, and is one of the oldest mints in the world still operating from its original premises.
Opened in June 1899, two years before Australia's Federation, as a branch of Britain's Royal Mint, the Mint was established to refine the gold from Western Australia's newly discovered eastern goldfields and to turn it into British sovereigns and half sovereigns for the Empire. The Mint continued under British control until 1970, when ownership was transferred to the Western Australian Government.
Over its 102-year history, The Perth Mint has refined the vast majority of ...