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... holes , but these signs of violence were only one side of the page , the side the news- papers liked to print . The goldfields ' chief commissioner noted on 1 October 1852 that the crime rate was no higher on the diggings than in the ...
... holes , but these signs of violence were only one side of the page , the side the news- papers liked to print . The goldfields ' chief commissioner noted on 1 October 1852 that the crime rate was no higher on the diggings than in the ...
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... holes were barren but because in 1854 the average shaft was 120 to 160 feet deep and took five to eight months to ... hole and there were £ 502 expenses and £ 1 . 10s . per week for boarding and we did not get above £ 40 out of it . I ...
... holes were barren but because in 1854 the average shaft was 120 to 160 feet deep and took five to eight months to ... hole and there were £ 502 expenses and £ 1 . 10s . per week for boarding and we did not get above £ 40 out of it . I ...
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... holes deep enough to ram in the explosive that shattered the rock . By the 1870s Bendigo miners were fracturing the rock more easily by using , instead of black blasting powder , the dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel . At the same time ...
... holes deep enough to ram in the explosive that shattered the rock . By the 1870s Bendigo miners were fracturing the rock more easily by using , instead of black blasting powder , the dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel . At the same time ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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