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Perth Mint Gold Tour: Immerse Yourself in Australia's Rich Gold Rush History
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472 Ratings
Perth
Immerse yourself in Australia's rich gold rush history at the Perth Mint Gold Tour. Experience the magic, allure, and wonder of gold through multimedia presentations, interactive displays, and dazzling pure gold exhibits.
Duration:
1 hour
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- The Perth Mint - Make the most of your visit to The Perth Mint by joining one of the hourly guided talks. The grand heritage building, heavily secured vaults and original melting house each provide the cues for many extraordinary stories about Western Australia’s golden past and the Mint’s rich history of refining gold and issuing priceless gold bars and coins.
Marvel at the largest coin ever made, weighing one tonne of pure gold; view Australia’s most dazzling display of natural gold nuggets; watch molten gold being poured to form a gleaming solid gold bar; handle more than $700,000 worth of gold bullion and much more!
What's Included
- Experienced tour guide included
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transportation to/from attractions
Additional Information
The Perth Mint offers a unique combination of attractions which allow you to experience all the magic, allure and wonder of gold.
Founded in 1899 on the cusp of the greatest gold rush in Australia’s history, the Mint is custodian to one of Western Australia’s oldest heritage sites and is a magnificent reminder of the State’s golden beginnings.
Bringing the story of Western Australian gold to life, the darkened halls of the Gold Exhibition offer multimedia presentations, interactive displays, historic images and aged artefacts, which all combine to form the backdrop to the array of dazzling pure gold exhibits.
Embark on the emotive journey of gold discovery,
marvel at the largest gold coin ever made, view an impressive collection of natural gold nuggets, watch
how molten gold is poured to
form a solid gold bar, discover the value of your weight in gold, and much more!
- The Perth Mint is located at 310 Hay Street (cnr Hill Street) in East Perth, a short walk from Perth’s city centre and many leading hotels and accommodation houses. You can use the free Central Area Transit (CAT) bus service to visit the Mint. Chose the Red CAT bus (click here for route map) and depart at The Perth Mint stop (Number R06)
- Open Fridays and Saturdays for Tours of The Perth Mint
- Public holidays from 9.00am to 5.00pm
- Closed New Year’s Day, 9th January 2022, Good Friday, Anzac Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
- An exhibition guide brochure is available in 8 languages (Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and Korean)
- Wheelchair access and special restroom facilities. A wheelchair is available for loan, if required.
Location
The Perth Mint
310 Hay St, East Perth
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(472 Ratings)
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Ist26
Jun 15, 2024
An absolute delightful find and well worth the insight - We sort of stumbled on the mint and decided to pop in. A tour was about to start and thought why not! Well! What a great tour. Not only do you get to see the incredible gold coin for real, but also the guided tour of Australias gold nugget finds as well as the brilliant demonstration of how a gold bar is actually produced. Great interactive weight scales and commemorative coin. Don’t miss it!
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Gerad_g
Jun 13, 2024
A excellent mint tour. - An excellent tour in Perth mint. The one was giving the tour is very educational, entertaining and to the point. He gave the tour group a demonstration how to make a gold bar. After the tour, I went to the scale, and I am worth 10 million dollars. We had a little token and stamped.
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Oliviav829
Jun 11, 2024
Perth Mint 10/10 - Shoutout to Oliver, the best tour guide out there. Made it fun and enjoyable. Bring back the early clock off on a Tuesday for the pub. He definitely deserves the gold bar ;)
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249vaishalik
Jun 3, 2024
The fabulous gold tour - The tour was fantastic, we really enjoyed the tour specially gold pour. Oscar gave a good information on gold melting processing, in the end of gold melt, Oscar was surely hot man, indeed.!
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V4690tkemilyt
May 29, 2024
Highly recommend the Mint Tour - Our guide Oliver was very entertaining and informative. I have never been on a mint tour before and had no idea about the minting process. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, particularly the gold bullion pour.
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Vasudevan_b
May 26, 2024
Excellent for those who like precious metals - Great insights into the history and close view of Gold Pour. Loved the tour that includes the guide narrating the history.
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Rce56
May 24, 2024
Golden tour - Loved the tour and especially seeing the gold melted. It was really interesting and I particularly loved getting my weight valued in gold!!
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Jmajsailem
Jun 24, 2024
First time visiting - The Perth mint, is s beautiful old historical building. Oliver the tour guide was brilliant!! Very informative, knowledgeable and added a lot of fun and humour in the tour.
The gold pour included in the tour, was amazing definitely worth doing the tour you need to pre book and fills up quickly.
Printing your own memorable coin in the press was great fun too, you can only do this in rhe tour which was included in the price.
Great for all ages, i wouldnt say it was wheelchair friendly as it was built in the late 1800’s .
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Q7840eudanl
Jun 13, 2024
A Mint that doesn't accept cash. - Always an enjoyable and interesting place to visit even if not participating in the gold tour. I was there to check out the newly minted coins, purchased a couple of 125th anniversary carded coins and wished that I could win Lotto and invest in some of the silver and gold treasures. Great place to visit when in Perth and friendly pleasant staff awaiting to extract payment for the creations on display. Card only now although still minting coins that are legal currency.
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Andrewyew
May 26, 2024
Golden experience - There is a tour of the mint which shows you how gold is melted. There is a 1000kg gold coin which is worth a lot of money. You can also buy bullion gold from the shop but you will need to register. It is an interesting visit but there is not so much to see like a museum. There is a shop which you can customise silver coins with your name.
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