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Page 47
... silver . Clothes tat- tered , a month's stubble on his face , he staggered back to civiliza- tion with specimens of galena that contained up to one hundred ounces of silver to the ton . But Zeehan was not the old story of lucky miners ...
... silver . Clothes tat- tered , a month's stubble on his face , he staggered back to civiliza- tion with specimens of galena that contained up to one hundred ounces of silver to the ton . But Zeehan was not the old story of lucky miners ...
Page 48
... silver boom to proclaim its similarity to the Zeehan lodes . In the winter of 1888 the Silver Queen , Silver King , Silver Hills , Silver Harp , Silver Trumpet and twenty more of these silver syndicates were prospecting at Zeehan , and ...
... silver boom to proclaim its similarity to the Zeehan lodes . In the winter of 1888 the Silver Queen , Silver King , Silver Hills , Silver Harp , Silver Trumpet and twenty more of these silver syndicates were prospecting at Zeehan , and ...
Page 49
... silver and lead . Broken Hill , in the same time , had yielded £ 237 million and was still going strong . Nevertheless , in 1891 , when Australian silver mining was in its infancy , who was to say that Zeehan and Dundas might not offer ...
... silver and lead . Broken Hill , in the same time , had yielded £ 237 million and was still going strong . Nevertheless , in 1891 , when Australian silver mining was in its infancy , who was to say that Zeehan and Dundas might not offer ...
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