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... Miners ' Association enrolled more members . As most miners were now gathered into the few large surviving mines they could more readily be marshalled into the union . A seven - day strike in November 1889 persuaded the mining companies ...
... Miners ' Association enrolled more members . As most miners were now gathered into the few large surviving mines they could more readily be marshalled into the union . A seven - day strike in November 1889 persuaded the mining companies ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. the new London shareholders to discover . They eagerly accepted the risk . De Bernales found it easy to float companies in London by employ- ing the service of Great Boulder Proprietary ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. the new London shareholders to discover . They eagerly accepted the risk . De Bernales found it easy to float companies in London by employ- ing the service of Great Boulder Proprietary ...
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... companies . They had paid no dividend and each five shillings share was now valued at an average of only eightpence ... mining companies in London was the cardinal feature of the 1890s gold boom but , except for de Bernales ' companies ...
... companies . They had paid no dividend and each five shillings share was now valued at an average of only eightpence ... mining companies in London was the cardinal feature of the 1890s gold boom but , except for de Bernales ' companies ...
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