This image is a photograph of a gold miner working in the Associated Gold Mine in Kalgoorlie, circa 1951.

The original photograph is held by the State Library of Western Australia. A digital image of the photograph was created by the State Library of Western Australia and is available from the Library Information Service of Western Australia (LISWA) website. The LISWA image includes an assertion of copyright 2001, but this assertion is incorrect: the image is in the public domain under both Australian copyright law and US copyright law. This digital image is a cropped version of the LISWA digital image that eliminates the incorrect copyright notice.

This image or other work is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain because its term of copyright has expired. According to the Australian Copyright Council (ACC), ACC Information Sheet G023v19 (Duration of copyright) (January 2019).1 Type of material Copyright has expired if …  A  Photographs or other works published anonymously, under a pseudonym or the creator is unknown: taken or published prior to 1 சனவரி 1955 B Photographs (except A): taken prior to 1 சனவரி 1955 C Artistic works (except A & B): the creator died before 1 சனவரி 1955 D Published editions2 (except A & B): first published more than 25 years ago (prior to 1 சனவரி 1999) E Commonwealth, State or Territory owned3 photographs and engravings: taken or published more than 50 years ago (prior to 1 சனவரி 1974) 1 Copyright Amendment (Disability Access and Other Measures) Bill 2017 (Australian Government) 2 means the typographical arrangement and layout of a published work. eg. newsprint. 3 owned means where a government is the copyright owner as well as would have owned copyright but reached some other agreement with the creator. When using this template, please provide information of where the image was first published and who created it. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. العربية ∙ català ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ français ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ русский ∙ slovenščina ∙ Tok Pisin ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−