Tyler Mahoney is an unstoppable 25-year-old gold miner who's addicted to the hunt

Twenty-five-year-old Tyler Mahoney says the hunt for gold is addictive. (Supplied)

At an age when other kids were playing with toy animals and playdough, Tyler Mahoney was cradling a metal detector.

As a kid, she spent days and days in the scorching sun of the Western Australian desert searching for gold.