Gold Mining Pokies At Australian Online Casinos

Added: November 12, 2015

At one time mining was the staple industry in Australia. Therefore software providers to Australian online casinos include mining themed pokies in their portfolio. Microgaming is one of the leading software providers and has two mining themed slots two offer. You can play them at Casino Mate, Royal Vegas and Ruby Fortune.

Fortune Finder is popular because it has an innovative feature. You mine for gold, diamond and ruby, but choose one of them to be your wild symbol. The other two will appear on the reels but play no part in the payouts of the online pokie. You can change the wild symbol whenever you want, except in the free spins. But it will be effective from the next spin only. The high paying symbols are the mine cart, the gold pan, the dynamite and the pickaxe. The low paying symbols are the usual playing card icons. The gap between the payouts of the high paying and low paying symbols indicated that Fortune Finder is a high variance online pokie. Three, four or five scattered miner symbols award 15, 20 or 25 free spins respectively. All payouts are doubled in the free spins and the feature can be retriggered. Fortune Finder also includes the Microgaming gamble game.

Gopher Gold takes a slightly comic look at the theme of gold mining with the gopher as the miner. It is an earlier Microgaming pokie, but one with a very high variance. This makes it popular with risk taking Australian online casino players. Set in the 5x3 format it has only five paylines that make winning combinations infrequent. This is partly compensated by winning combinations paying both left to right and right to left. But it is mainly compensated by large payouts for the high paying symbols. So when you get winning combinations with these payouts they are likely to be big. The Gopher Gold logo awards the top line payout of 12,000 coins. The other thematic symbols are dynamite, mine cart laden with gold, pick axe and lantern. The low paying symbols are the playing card icons cast in gold. The wild symbol is the gopher. It does not award any line payouts but substitutes for all other symbols. Gopher Gold does not award scatter payouts nor does it have any bonus features. It is an ideal online pokie to put on Auto Play. You activate the Expert mode and you can then choose from the standard auto play options or customize one to your liking.