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The biggest game in town - and the prize is gold

Trevor Sykes
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Miners on SA's Gawler Craton are sharemarket darlings. Trevor Sykes went to the site of the latest gold rush to find out if it will be the new Olympic Dam - or another Poseidon.

Wedged down in a red sandhill amid drab casuarina scrub and bluebush in the desolate South Australian outback, a solitary drilling rig hammers slowly into the Earth's crust, breathing dust clouds and drilling water as it spits rock chips into a green

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Trevor Sykes writes on Business specialising in Mining, Energy, Shares. Trevor applies his acerbic wit to Australian business as Pierpont.

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