For millennia, Western Australia's arid deserts remained untouched. Then, in 1893, European prospectors discovered "The Golden Mile" on Indigenous land. In a century, the natural landscape transformed into Kalgoorlie-Boulder's industrial hellscape.
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The discovery of the "Golden Mile" in Western Australia's arid deserts on June 14, 1893, led to the end of isolation for European prospectors, who found a valuable treasure trove on ancestral lands of the Indigenous people.
