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 127
... shafts a few hundred feet and appointed a Royal Commission to decide whether gold would go down to a thousand feet . At Kalgoorlie they sink to a thousand feet in one act and start straight off for the second thousand . . . enormous ...
... shafts a few hundred feet and appointed a Royal Commission to decide whether gold would go down to a thousand feet . At Kalgoorlie they sink to a thousand feet in one act and start straight off for the second thousand . . . enormous ...
Page 151
... shafts scattered all over the goldfields bush . Had the murderers blown in the side of the shaft the remains might never have been found . There was no great alarm in Kalgoorlie for a few days . With thousands of sparsely populated ...
... shafts scattered all over the goldfields bush . Had the murderers blown in the side of the shaft the remains might never have been found . There was no great alarm in Kalgoorlie for a few days . With thousands of sparsely populated ...
Page 169
... shafts and open - cuts and mullock heaps and slime dumps . For Kalgoorlie children that was the main " Dumps " area , separated from the town proper by the railway line to Boulder along which trains occasionally puffed their way through ...
... shafts and open - cuts and mullock heaps and slime dumps . For Kalgoorlie children that was the main " Dumps " area , separated from the town proper by the railway line to Boulder along which trains occasionally puffed their way through ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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