The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningMaps on lining papers Includes index Bibliography: p 344-357. |
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... gold mines to a new and faster set of dice , blocks of city and suburban land . Curiously San Francisco , the rialto for the mines of California and the Rockies , began to swap mining scrip for land titles with the same abandon about ...
... gold mines to a new and faster set of dice , blocks of city and suburban land . Curiously San Francisco , the rialto for the mines of California and the Rockies , began to swap mining scrip for land titles with the same abandon about ...
Page 314
... gold to each short ton . De Bernales had the foresight to see that gold mining would boom again . In addition to Wiluna he had acquired the leases of scores of mines that were once rich or promising but were closed by rising costs or ...
... gold to each short ton . De Bernales had the foresight to see that gold mining would boom again . In addition to Wiluna he had acquired the leases of scores of mines that were once rich or promising but were closed by rising costs or ...
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... mines resembled a quiet creek rather than rapids . Some South African gold companies dabbled in Vic- torian goldfields . A company that had owned the celebrated Camp Bird mine in Colorado invested in Victorian deep - lead mines and ...
... mines resembled a quiet creek rather than rapids . Some South African gold companies dabbled in Vic- torian goldfields . A company that had owned the celebrated Camp Bird mine in Colorado invested in Victorian deep - lead mines and ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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