The Gympie council’s decision to demolish a 40-year-old iconic replica mining gantry at the city’s historical museum has been decried as “devastating” as backlash grows against the controversial ...

The statue was found on the outskirts of Gympie in 1966 as a farmer ploughed his field and historians have been trying to ...

It has been long thought there is still plenty of gold in the old workings that tunnel beneath Gympie, but it turns out there ...

It has been long thought there is plenty of gold in the old workings that tunnel beneath the old mining city of Gympie, but it turns out there are also significant riches well beyond the city limits.

Plans to demolish an iconic walkway between the Gympie Mining Museum and poppet head have been met with outrage, although the cost of fixing the 40-year-old structure could run into the millions.

But Gympie Gold Mining and Historical Museum secretary Ralph Richardson said it was not for sale. The artefact was so popular, the museum needed to make it more accessible for the dozens of ...