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... prospectors could identify even the commonest min- erals . ' I have over and over again seen prospectors completely puzzled , unable to distinguish tin from iron ' , he wrote . Even prospectors who carried dog - eared mining guides were ...
... prospectors could identify even the commonest min- erals . ' I have over and over again seen prospectors completely puzzled , unable to distinguish tin from iron ' , he wrote . Even prospectors who carried dog - eared mining guides were ...
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... prospectors had gained a third foothold on the west coast . After almost thirty years of futile searching gold was ... prospectors . He was Irish , and he had roughed it on the New Zealand diggings . To other prospectors Lynch seemed an ...
... prospectors had gained a third foothold on the west coast . After almost thirty years of futile searching gold was ... prospectors . He was Irish , and he had roughed it on the New Zealand diggings . To other prospectors Lynch seemed an ...
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... prospectors vowed that the new field needed only a railway to become a new Mt Lyell . The railway came in 1900 . In fact the navvies making the railway for the Emu Bay com- pany dug a cutting in the centre of the Renison Bell lease and ...
... prospectors vowed that the new field needed only a railway to become a new Mt Lyell . The railway came in 1900 . In fact the navvies making the railway for the Emu Bay com- pany dug a cutting in the centre of the Renison Bell lease and ...
Contents
A Silver Lining | 6 |
gorge 1896 | 39 |
Miners gathered at the mouth of the bonanza tunnel | 74 |
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