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 38
... quartz outcrop which later became Bayley's Reward Mine , a mile or so from Fly Flat , was discovered . Until then they had found only alluvial gold . Ford described the find quite casually : After we got back to Fly Flat , Bayley was ...
... quartz outcrop which later became Bayley's Reward Mine , a mile or so from Fly Flat , was discovered . Until then they had found only alluvial gold . Ford described the find quite casually : After we got back to Fly Flat , Bayley was ...
Page 63
... quartz reef , but there was " a lode composed of ironstone , small quartz veins , decomposed greenstone , and porphyry all mixed together . " Cammilleri's lode matter was later the Brown Hill - Oroya Shoot , which , at various depths ...
... quartz reef , but there was " a lode composed of ironstone , small quartz veins , decomposed greenstone , and porphyry all mixed together . " Cammilleri's lode matter was later the Brown Hill - Oroya Shoot , which , at various depths ...
Page 128
... quartz reefs were left because the material was too hard to raise and too hard to treat . Hard rock treatment and deep mining proceeded cautiously over the years , for there was little risk - capital to waste on experimental development ...
... quartz reefs were left because the material was too hard to raise and too hard to treat . Hard rock treatment and deep mining proceeded cautiously over the years , for there was little risk - capital to waste on experimental development ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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