The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningMaps on lining papers Includes index Bibliography: p 344-357. |
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... metal refineries and smelters by the seaboard , mines in the forest below snowed mountains and mines by the warm ocean , but most mines are out in the arid wastelands . They have long yielded much of the world's precious and base metals ...
... metal refineries and smelters by the seaboard , mines in the forest below snowed mountains and mines by the warm ocean , but most mines are out in the arid wastelands . They have long yielded much of the world's precious and base metals ...
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... metal field had small bargaining power . Broken Hill presaged troubles that would worry most base - metal fields . So long as a copper or lead field was new or the price of its metals high , there was small danger of a sharp rift ...
... metal field had small bargaining power . Broken Hill presaged troubles that would worry most base - metal fields . So long as a copper or lead field was new or the price of its metals high , there was small danger of a sharp rift ...
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... metal - bearing rock and extracting the metal . Claim : a square of Crown land which a gold digger held and worked by virtue of his licence or miner's right . A claim was smaller , cheaper , and less secure than a mining lease . Cradle ...
... metal - bearing rock and extracting the metal . Claim : a square of Crown land which a gold digger held and worked by virtue of his licence or miner's right . A claim was smaller , cheaper , and less secure than a mining lease . Cradle ...
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