A Western Australian prospector is taking on the harsh and remote outback in search of gold.

WA Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association president James Allison told Deborah Knight gold prospecting is a boom or bust cycle, but it’s all worth it.

“Gold is where you find it. Western Australia is a big state, there’s a lot of land to cover and gold is still being found.

Mr Allison says he has a bulldozer to scrape the ground, and uses an electronic metal detector to look through the piles of dirt.

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