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Page 33
... feet . The diggers used blankets and mercury to attract the gold , but the grains were so fine and the rush of the slush so swift that more than half the gold glided down the tailings race . Nevertheless , one piece of ground fifty feet ...
... feet . The diggers used blankets and mercury to attract the gold , but the grains were so fine and the rush of the slush so swift that more than half the gold glided down the tailings race . Nevertheless , one piece of ground fifty feet ...
Page 67
... feet down the shaft , passed through seventeen feet of good ore and then struck barren conglomerate rock . Underfoot the rich patch lasted four or five feet and suddenly pinched to a mere thread . When the bonanza finally vanished in ...
... feet down the shaft , passed through seventeen feet of good ore and then struck barren conglomerate rock . Underfoot the rich patch lasted four or five feet and suddenly pinched to a mere thread . When the bonanza finally vanished in ...
Page 143
... feet away he had no fear of detection . The Blocks miners accordingly followed the ore body fourteen feet into the North Lyell lease and stoped this ore to a height of eighty feet . They tore out copper worth £ 33,000 , filled the stope ...
... feet away he had no fear of detection . The Blocks miners accordingly followed the ore body fourteen feet into the North Lyell lease and stoped this ore to a height of eighty feet . They tore out copper worth £ 33,000 , filled the stope ...
Contents
A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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