Super Pit gold mine

The Fimiston Open Pit, colloquially known as the Super Pit, is an open-pit mine in Western Australia. It was Australia's largest open cut gold mine until late 2015, when it was overtaken by the Newmont Boddington gold mine, also in .
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  • Type: Gold mine
  • Description: gold mine in Western Australia
  • Also known as: “Fimiston open pit” and “Super Pit”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Boulder Town Hall and Cornwall Hotel.

Town hall
Photo: Mgorey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is situated 2 km west of Super Pit gold mine.

Building
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is a building, which is situated 1½ km southwest of Super Pit gold mine.

Building
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is a building, which is situated 1½ km west of Super Pit gold mine.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kalgoorlie–Boulder and Piccadilly.

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is a regional city in the region of . Kalgoorlie is a mining town with a long history that contains much of interest to the adventurous traveller.

Suburb
is a residential suburb of Kalgoorlie–Boulder, a city in the Eastern Goldfields region of . At the 2016 census, it had a population of 2,263 people, down from 2,597 in 2011. is situated 5 km northwest of Super Pit gold mine.

Super Pit gold mine

Latitude
-30.77665° or 30° 46′ 36″ south
Longitude
121.50398° or 121° 30′ 14″ east
Elevation
192 metres (630 feet)
Open location code
4QX36GF3+8H
Geo­Names ID
6453444
Wiki­data ID
Q1892215
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Satellite Map

Discover Super Pit gold mine from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Super Pit gold mine” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Fimiston Open Pit”
  • Danish: “Super Pit”
  • Dutch: “Super Pit goudmijn”
  • Dutch: “Super Pit-goudmijn”
  • French: “Mine de Super Pit”
  • French: “Super Pit”
  • German: “Super-Pit-Goldmine”
  • Lithuanian: “Super Pit aukso kasykla”
  • Polish: “Super Pit”
  • Portuguese: “Super Pit”
  • Slovenian: “Fimiston Open Pit”
  • Slovenian: “Super Pit”
  • Slovenian: “Superpit”
  • Spanish: “Mina de oro Super Pit”
  • Spanish: “Super Pit”
  • Swedish: “Fimiston Open Pit”
  • Ukrainian: “Калгурлі”
  • Ukrainian: “Супер Піт”

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