Coolgardie’s Denver City Hotel is doing a roaring trade renting its rooms out to miners, but publican Daryl Kohlman says there are many subtler ways record gold prices are bringing the town back to life.

“You get more phone reception now because they’ve got the mines opening down the road,” says Kohlman, the publican in the town, population 850, that lies 554 kilometres north-east of Perth.

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