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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... prospectors who edged their way east from Southern Cross in the eighties and the nineties . Goldfields history is rich in names bestowed by him on his watering points- Kookoordine , Reen's Soak , Gnarlbine Rocks , Hunt's Slate Well ...
... prospectors who edged their way east from Southern Cross in the eighties and the nineties . Goldfields history is rich in names bestowed by him on his watering points- Kookoordine , Reen's Soak , Gnarlbine Rocks , Hunt's Slate Well ...
Page 44
... prospectors obeyed ; others on good gold who had their own water tanks managed to stay on . The Browne - Lyon party was allowed to remain through that first summer , their camels bringing water from Gnarlbine in thirty - three - gallon ...
... prospectors obeyed ; others on good gold who had their own water tanks managed to stay on . The Browne - Lyon party was allowed to remain through that first summer , their camels bringing water from Gnarlbine in thirty - three - gallon ...
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... prospectors . He had a genius for persuading Governments to tie up on his behalf vast tracts of possible auriferous country , keeping the ordinary individual prospector out . And prospectors described the amount of prospecting de ...
... prospectors . He had a genius for persuading Governments to tie up on his behalf vast tracts of possible auriferous country , keeping the ordinary individual prospector out . And prospectors described the amount of prospecting de ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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