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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Gavin Casey, Ted Mayman. Hannan noted the positions of Mt Charlotte and Maritana Hill , and near the top of Egan Street , several hundred yards from the slopes of Cassidy's Hill , he pointed to where he had found his first nugget . There ...
Gavin Casey, Ted Mayman. Hannan noted the positions of Mt Charlotte and Maritana Hill , and near the top of Egan Street , several hundred yards from the slopes of Cassidy's Hill , he pointed to where he had found his first nugget . There ...
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... Hill near the reward prospecting claim . T. W. Dugan and the Lyons brothers had been granted most of the Maritana Hill area . A mile south - east , Dan Egan had the Croesus lease , where late in the year a five - head stamp battery was ...
... Hill near the reward prospecting claim . T. W. Dugan and the Lyons brothers had been granted most of the Maritana Hill area . A mile south - east , Dan Egan had the Croesus lease , where late in the year a five - head stamp battery was ...
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... Maritana Hill for his sights . The bare , well - mined hill , rising 150 feet above the surrounding country , had been named Mt Gledden when it was first trigged , and is still shown on maps as Mt Gledden , but it has always been ...
... Maritana Hill for his sights . The bare , well - mined hill , rising 150 feet above the surrounding country , had been named Mt Gledden when it was first trigged , and is still shown on maps as Mt Gledden , but it has always been ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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