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As his 100th birthday nears, Bob Mazza recalls WA ghost town Gwalia before mine closed 60 years ago

Bob Mazza was born in 1923 and lived in Gwalia until the mine closed. (Supplied: Kate Ferguson)

In the wide streets of the ghost town of Gwalia, 230 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie, the silence is broken only by the careful footsteps of the occasional tourist, venturing through the rusting tin shacks.  

The abandoned tin shacks in Gwalia are a window to the past. (ABC Goldfields: Giulia Bertoglio)
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