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... profit , and many got that profit . Investors who suffer most in a mining mania are those who buy late , not early . Even after the lid had blown from the golden hole Western Aus- tralian companies were floated daily in London ...
... profit , and many got that profit . Investors who suffer most in a mining mania are those who buy late , not early . Even after the lid had blown from the golden hole Western Aus- tralian companies were floated daily in London ...
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... profits . Isolation and muddy mountain roads ate those profits . The company spent £ 7,600 of shareholders ' capital and then borrowed £ 30,000 from a bank . Profits from the sale of tin were invested in large dams and water races and ...
... profits . Isolation and muddy mountain roads ate those profits . The company spent £ 7,600 of shareholders ' capital and then borrowed £ 30,000 from a bank . Profits from the sale of tin were invested in large dams and water races and ...
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... profit of £ 106,000 . If small gamblers had controlled a mine with such a bonanza they would have paid the profits in ... profits in the company in the hope of gaining a larger reward . They had a big mine and they would work it as a big ...
... profit of £ 106,000 . If small gamblers had controlled a mine with such a bonanza they would have paid the profits in ... profits in the company in the hope of gaining a larger reward . They had a big mine and they would work it as a big ...
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