The Mile that Midas TouchedThe story of Kalgoorlie's golden mile - the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world - and of the rest of the Eastern goldfields in Western Australia. |
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Page 97
... Claude de Bernales . Standing , Jack Scadden , Minister for Mines ; Sir James Mitchell , Premier of Western Australia ; Ben Leslie , Mayor of Kalgoorlie ; and Ernest Williams , manager of the Boulder Perseverance Mine The original ...
... Claude de Bernales . Standing , Jack Scadden , Minister for Mines ; Sir James Mitchell , Premier of Western Australia ; Ben Leslie , Mayor of Kalgoorlie ; and Ernest Williams , manager of the Boulder Perseverance Mine The original ...
Page 135
... Claude de Bernales , said in an advertisement in a 1910 mining journal . In the revival of the gold - mining industry in the nineteen- thirties , de Bernales was to charm London funds into his many interests on the West Australian ...
... Claude de Bernales , said in an advertisement in a 1910 mining journal . In the revival of the gold - mining industry in the nineteen- thirties , de Bernales was to charm London funds into his many interests on the West Australian ...
Page 162
... Claude de Bernales , who died in London in December 1963 at the age of 87 years , first reached the goldfields as a young man eager to emulate the Brookmans and the Doolettes . As a slim , handsome youth of twenty - one he was sometimes ...
... Claude de Bernales , who died in London in December 1963 at the age of 87 years , first reached the goldfields as a young man eager to emulate the Brookmans and the Doolettes . As a slim , handsome youth of twenty - one he was sometimes ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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