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

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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