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Page 31
... four feet , yielded over a hundred ounces of free gold . The upper face advanced so far up the hill that gold was being sluiced on the fringe of the dark boulder mass . The men were sure - cocksure , in fact — that this gold had been ...
... four feet , yielded over a hundred ounces of free gold . The upper face advanced so far up the hill that gold was being sluiced on the fringe of the dark boulder mass . The men were sure - cocksure , in fact — that this gold had been ...
Page 127
... four more profitable mines in fifty golden years , and by 1905 Mt. Lyell had passed them all . In 1898 the Mt. Lyell Company led Australian copper mining for the first time and railed away 4,787 tons of blister copper . Two years later ...
... four more profitable mines in fifty golden years , and by 1905 Mt. Lyell had passed them all . In 1898 the Mt. Lyell Company led Australian copper mining for the first time and railed away 4,787 tons of blister copper . Two years later ...
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... four hotels had closed , and that hundreds of huts and houses had disappeared , leaving a scattered town with large wastes of peat and gravel and shabby walls of peeling paint . The expansion of the underground mines in the depression ...
... four hotels had closed , and that hundreds of huts and houses had disappeared , leaving a scattered town with large wastes of peat and gravel and shabby walls of peeling paint . The expansion of the underground mines in the depression ...
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