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"Clearly, if you were planning to steal this gold, you wouldn't post it on Facebook"

Three men who found gold during a barbecue at a remote goldfields minesite and posted the news on Facebook have been fined A$5,000 (US$3,700) each in the Kalgoorlie Magistrate’s Court this week.

Trial mining: The three thieves were summoned to the Kalgoorlie courthouse

Trial mining: The three thieves were summoned to the Kalgoorlie courthouse

Andrew Mark Warren, Stephen Lindsay Rowe and Michael James Forward had earlier pleaded guilty to stealing more than A$60,000 worth of gold from an Evolution Mining (AU:EVN) tenement north of Coolgardie,...

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