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Page 326
... Mount Isa might prove rich . He got option to buy four hundred acres from the prospectors , and floated Mount Isa Mines Limited in Sydney in 1924 . Randolph Bedford , a giant of a man with red face , long boomerang moustache and broad ...
... Mount Isa might prove rich . He got option to buy four hundred acres from the prospectors , and floated Mount Isa Mines Limited in Sydney in 1924 . Randolph Bedford , a giant of a man with red face , long boomerang moustache and broad ...
Page 327
... Mount Isa had no rich ore . Their deeper sulphide ore was half as rich again as Mount Isa's average ore . They had built no township to house the miners whereas Mount Isa would have to create town and amenities and dams to attract the ...
... Mount Isa had no rich ore . Their deeper sulphide ore was half as rich again as Mount Isa's average ore . They had built no township to house the miners whereas Mount Isa would have to create town and amenities and dams to attract the ...
Page 332
... Mount Isa could be a ghost town within another decade . The logic of his report was cold and irrefutable . The ambitious scheme to make Mount Isa a rich mine had been thwarted by the unexpected , the strange behaviour of ores , the ...
... Mount Isa could be a ghost town within another decade . The logic of his report was cold and irrefutable . The ambitious scheme to make Mount Isa a rich mine had been thwarted by the unexpected , the strange behaviour of ores , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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