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Opened in 1899 to refine the gold pouring out of Western Australia's goldfields, the Perth Mint is one of the city's grandest colonial buildings and a popular visitor attraction. Behind its green doors and limestone facade, gold is still worked today, more than a century on. The mint was set up as the third Australian branch of Britain's Royal Mint, following Sydney and Melbourne. The huge gold discoveries at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in the 1890s created an urgent need for a place to assay and...