Australian dating website hooks up miners and gold diggers

An Australian dating service is being launched with the promise to play matchmaker between gold miners and “gold diggers”.

Fueled by booming demand from Asian countries, tens of thousands of eligible Australian men are flocking to remote outback mines, where they earn six figure sums but have next to no chance of finding a girlfriend.

Young women, on the other hand, are left behind in the big cities facing a man drought, with an increasingly slim chance of meeting the boyfriend or husband of their dreams.



The aim of the website, called Meet a Mining Man, is to bring the two lovelorn groups together. It is targeted at fly-in, fly-out workers, who spend weeks at a time in dusty mining camps hundreds of miles from the nearest pub, let alone nightclub, with a severe dearth of female company.

The dating service will be launched this week in Western Australia, the state profiting most from the sale of iron ore and other minerals, including gold, to China.

Those keen to sign up to the service are encouraged to be honest in describing themselves online. “Include a recent photo (recent meaning within the last 12 months). Ten years ago when you were a body builder is fine to remember fondly but sooner or later you’ll have to ’fess up.”

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