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... London . Trade fairs were as popular as music halls , so Queensland arranged a lavish display of its wealth . Four Charters Towers mines sold to the Queensland government over a hundred tons of golden stone , which was shipped to London ...
... London . Trade fairs were as popular as music halls , so Queensland arranged a lavish display of its wealth . Four Charters Towers mines sold to the Queensland government over a hundred tons of golden stone , which was shipped to London ...
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... London . The London stock exchange was ripening for a mining boom . Financial panic in Australia and the United States and world depres- sion cut the outlets for investment in the new world . By 1894 so many Englishmen were hunting for ...
... London . The London stock exchange was ripening for a mining boom . Financial panic in Australia and the United States and world depres- sion cut the outlets for investment in the new world . By 1894 so many Englishmen were hunting for ...
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... London to resell the mine . In London Fingall and a covey of lords and the Chilean nitrate king , Colonel J. T. North , agreed to sit on the board of Londonderry Gold Mine Limited . Capital was 700,000 shares of £ 1 each . Fingall and ...
... London to resell the mine . In London Fingall and a covey of lords and the Chilean nitrate king , Colonel J. T. North , agreed to sit on the board of Londonderry Gold Mine Limited . Capital was 700,000 shares of £ 1 each . Fingall and ...
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