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... engineers to inspect or manage English mining companies from Cool- gardie to Cue . It introduced American practices , strove in all its mines for cheap costs , and employed specialists in every phase of mining . Herbert C. Hoover was ...
... engineers to inspect or manage English mining companies from Cool- gardie to Cue . It introduced American practices , strove in all its mines for cheap costs , and employed specialists in every phase of mining . Herbert C. Hoover was ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. Engineers he came close to seeing that Morgan was a decomposed pyritic deposit . But not close enough , and he added another strange theory . Karl Schmeisser , a German engineer , spent ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. Engineers he came close to seeing that Morgan was a decomposed pyritic deposit . But not close enough , and he added another strange theory . Karl Schmeisser , a German engineer , spent ...
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... engineers and metallurgists crossed to Australia to manage new mines . The inflow of British capital at the end of the century brought more skilled engineers . Most big mines opened after 1886 were managed by imported engineers ...
... engineers and metallurgists crossed to Australia to manage new mines . The inflow of British capital at the end of the century brought more skilled engineers . Most big mines opened after 1886 were managed by imported engineers ...
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