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Goldstar’s Walhalla Gold Project Is One Of Australia’s Best Kept Secrets

By Our Man in Oz

Travelling to Walhalla has never been easy, either as a Norse warrior, or an Australian prospector. The warrior was obliged to die before being carried off to his Walhalla, the great hall of Odin, on the back of a Valkyrie, preferably one with blond pig-tails, big blue eyes, and answering to the name of Brunhilde, or something similar. The Aussie digger of the mid-to-late 19th century had a harder trip, largely because at his Walhalla there were very few Valkyries, and the trip was generally along a narrow creek-bed, or up near-vertical hills as he rummaged for gold in the rugged country of Victoria’s Gippsland region. .. more ...

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