The Perth Mint, Perth

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... or so they claim in their advertising.

Ever wanted to see gold, gold, gold? The treasure chambers of the Mint present nuggets, gold bars, coins and everything glittering. Sorry, strictly no photos allowed inside.

Gold pouring is shown every hour, quite nice to see, especially because the guy who's doing it is making a funny show of it. - To be honest, I have to admit that the founding of church bells from tons of bronze (which I've been able to watch recently) is a little more impressive...

Step on the scales to get to know the value of your weight in gold. No worries, the thing doesn't betray the number of kgs, all it showns is $$$.

The shop is worth seeing even if you don't have a couple of hundreds of dollars to spend: jewellery, nuggets, coins, precious stones and pearls. All these precious souvenirs are certified and thus trustworthy.

Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sat-Sun 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Entrance fee: adults $ 15

The Perth Mint was founded in 1899 after the discovery of gold in WA and is still is use today.
You can join a tour (highly recommended) which takes you through the history of the mint and ends with a gold pouring demonstration. Afterwards you can wander around and admire the various coins and bars which are on display or you can have your own coin minted.

The Mint is open weekdays from 9am to 5pm and weekends from 9am to 1pm. Admission is 15 AUD for adults.

Wanna get your hands on some gold worth $200,000? Then come here and see for yourself how big a block of gold worth that amount looks and weighs. There are also live demonstrations of how molten gold is turned into gold bars.

This is a 'must-see' - it being a multiple tourism award winner. The museum contains a variety of historical displays , you can take a heritage walk, view gold pouring demonstration (held hourly at the melt house), try to lift a $200,000 gold bar, view a wide collection of gold nuggets, coins etc. Opens daily (9am-4pm weekdays and 9am-1pm weekends and PH).

As said Jean Racine: "Point d’argent, point de Suisse" (= No money, no Swiss).

How could I resist to visit this place, may be I could discover the Philosopher's stone which allows the transmutation of lead into gold...

What an experience I've learnt that The Perth Mint is a world leader in the manufacture of precious metal coins, medallions and collectables. I saw molten gold being poured to make a 200oz bar in live... and even try to lift a real gold bar weighing 400oz. Admire a 369ounce 'Golden Beauty', one of the largest nuggets in the world.

At the end my gold thirsty was greater, I just ran to the next pub to order a XXXX Gold. The barmaid told me: Sorry mate, no Gold for the brave, we are in WA! (excuse me just a reminiscence from my Queensland stay ;-)

Opening Hours: Weekdays 9am - 4pm
Weekends & Public Holidays 9am - 1pm

The Perth Mint is one of 2 mints in Australia, the other being in Canberra. It opened in June 1899 as a branch of the British Royal Mint to refine the gold being produced during the gold rush. It remained under British control until 1970 when control was transferred to the Govt of the State of Western Australia.

There are short tours of the mint every hour during the day, which are free of charge. You are given a brief history of the Western Australian gold rush as well as the history of the Perth mint. You also have the option to pay $8.80 each to gain access to further parts of the mint including a demonstration of gold pouring. One of the displays is a gold bar which weights over 12kg. It is in a perspex case with an opening so you can reach in and try to pick it up with one hand – it’s not as easy as it sounds.

After the display of gold pouring, you have the option to ‘mint’ your own coin (gold plated, silver or gold). One side of the coin has the mint logo, the WA Swan, and the other side is blank for your message or text which could be something like “England – Rugby World Champions 2003”

A fun tour about making gold! and you get to see all the gold stuff...The Perth Mint began operating in 1899 and ceased ops in 1990.

The highlight is a gold pour demonstration at the Melting House. The friendly tour guides bring you around the place and explain about the discovery of coin in WA back in 1890s. In fact, we had the honour of having 17-year old Colin as thr tour guide on his "virgin tour".

Try your strength by lifting a 400 ounce gold bar worth over $200,000. I couldn't lift it up at all! only managed to shift its position. Was really heavy.

There are many coin displays throughout the whole place. You can get your loved ones a special sovenir, by minting a personalised medallion. There are a few designs to choose from (diff prices) and can engrave the medallion with a personal message. It was fun to watch the computer engrave the message on the coin too.

There's this other machine whereby if you put a AUD2 into it, it moves and emboss a Perth Mint design on a bronze coin and i get to keep that. It was pretty fun too.

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The Perth Mint is housed in 19th century heritage buildings and it is the nations oldest operating mint as well as being one of the oldest mints in the world which still produces coins from the original premises. They have the largest collection of natural gold nuggets in Australia’s. You can watch molten gold being poured in to make 200oz bars. There is also a good gift shop with all kinds of things imaginable made out of gold and coins.