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Page 106
... lead which had previously been ignored . There seems a con- sistent link between drought or depression and the opening of new mining fields . In Adelaide at the start of 1841 the people who sat on the shaded sides of their houses on ...
... lead which had previously been ignored . There seems a con- sistent link between drought or depression and the opening of new mining fields . In Adelaide at the start of 1841 the people who sat on the shaded sides of their houses on ...
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... lead stayed on the bottom of the tank and the zinc floated . He had separated them by the simple trick of altering the surface of the particles of lead . Whereas all the earlier flotation pro- cesses were blind processes that floated ...
... lead stayed on the bottom of the tank and the zinc floated . He had separated them by the simple trick of altering the surface of the particles of lead . Whereas all the earlier flotation pro- cesses were blind processes that floated ...
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... lead concentrate to German or Australian smelters at low prices . Why not buy a smelter to pro- duce bullion from the concentrate of the friendly mines ? Large smelting works at Dapto , fifty - six miles south of Sydney , were idle , so ...
... lead concentrate to German or Australian smelters at low prices . Why not buy a smelter to pro- duce bullion from the concentrate of the friendly mines ? Large smelting works at Dapto , fifty - six miles south of Sydney , were idle , so ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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