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Page 43
... Prospecting Association to this city . Here were mining agents , directors , experts , stockbrokers and enterprising investors with money to spend . A few of their number embraced Mt Lyell . The first board comprised George Horne ...
... Prospecting Association to this city . Here were mining agents , directors , experts , stockbrokers and enterprising investors with money to spend . A few of their number embraced Mt Lyell . The first board comprised George Horne ...
Page 240
... prospecting tools and a bag of oatmeal on his back and battled five miles north to thick forest at the foot of Mt Black . There he found alluvial gold and boulders of zinc lead - sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting ...
... prospecting tools and a bag of oatmeal on his back and battled five miles north to thick forest at the foot of Mt Black . There he found alluvial gold and boulders of zinc lead - sulphide . He floated the Rosebery Prospecting ...
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... prospecting and the rate of discovery should be far less than in the palmy days of the field . As only one company survived to prospect an area that once received the attention of forty , and as this company had to spend as much as ...
... prospecting and the rate of discovery should be far less than in the palmy days of the field . As only one company survived to prospect an area that once received the attention of forty , and as this company had to spend as much as ...
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A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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