As Australia rides the Asian resources boom, a new dating service promises to play matchmaker between miners and fair maidens.
Tens of thousands of eligible Australian men are flocking to remote mines, where they can 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.
The aim of the website, MeetAMiningMan.com.au, 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 kilometres from the nearest pub, let alone nightclub, with a dearth of female company.
The online dating service will be launched this week in Western Australia, the country's biggest state and the one that is profiting most from the sale of iron ore and other minerals to China.
