Once considered the richest square mile on Earth, the Golden Mile has produced more than 60 million ounces of gold — equivalent to about $100 billion at today's value. See Parker visit The Kalgoorlie Super Pit on the season finale of Parker's Trail this Friday at 8P on Discovery and Discovery GO. | Gold Rush

👷⛏️FLASHBACK FRIDAY⌛🤩 Check out this amazing footage from the ABC archives of gold miners working underground at Kalgoorlie's Mt Charlotte mine in 1970. 🎥 ABC Archives | ABC Goldfields-Esperance

Today marks the 41st anniversary of the worst disaster in the history of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. On April 30, 1981, an RFDS flight to save an infant child was returning to Kalgoorlie from Jameson in the remote Ngaanyatjarra Lands. The plane was hit by a severe dust storm and it collided with the Chaffers mine headframe on the Golden Mile. Pilot Arthur Turner, flight nurse Judith Osborne, passenger Alexander Coxall and 18-month-old patient Stephen Lane died in the crash. A 16-year-old gi