Gulf yields new gold

By Sally Cripps
Updated August 21 2015 - 2:57pm, first published June 1 2015 - 3:00am
Rob and Lyn French, pictured with their grandson Robert, have diversified their Gilbert River cattle station with a luxury tourism option to debt-proof their business for coming generations.
Rob and Lyn French, pictured with their grandson Robert, have diversified their Gilbert River cattle station with a luxury tourism option to debt-proof their business for coming generations.

CLOSE your eyes and go back in time to 1869 to a newly-formed goldmining town on the Gilbert River in Queensland's north-west. Imagine a collection of canvas tents and rough timber shacks housing 3000 Chinese and white miners, a softdrink factory, seven hotels, a commissioner's residence and even a hospital.

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