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... ironstone outcrop . Karlson , wide - shouldered with fair leonine beard , clambered on to the ironstone and shook into his tin dish some soil from the grass roots . At the nearest waterhole he washed the soil and found fine gold . His ...
... ironstone outcrop . Karlson , wide - shouldered with fair leonine beard , clambered on to the ironstone and shook into his tin dish some soil from the grass roots . At the nearest waterhole he washed the soil and found fine gold . His ...
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... ironstone mountain , and stockmen watched the cattle and the hungry diggers watched them too . One of the stockmen was William Mackinlay , and as he lived in a bark hut near the iron- stone mountain he had time to prospect . On his ...
... ironstone mountain , and stockmen watched the cattle and the hungry diggers watched them too . One of the stockmen was William Mackinlay , and as he lived in a bark hut near the iron- stone mountain he had time to prospect . On his ...
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... ironstone mountain ? The gold was in the ironstone , and many goldminers had a prejudice against iron deposits . It was almost a dogma from Castlemaine to Charters Towers that quartz was the mother of gold . Moreover , the gold on the ...
... ironstone mountain ? The gold was in the ironstone , and many goldminers had a prejudice against iron deposits . It was almost a dogma from Castlemaine to Charters Towers that quartz was the mother of gold . Moreover , the gold on the ...
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