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... engineer , T. A. Rickard , was at the mine for two rainy days in February 1890 , and in the first of many famous articles he was to write for the American Institute of Mining Engineers he came close to seeing that Morgan was a 242 The ...
... engineer , T. A. Rickard , was at the mine for two rainy days in February 1890 , and in the first of many famous articles he was to write for the American Institute of Mining Engineers he came close to seeing that Morgan was a 242 The ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. Engineers he came close to seeing that Morgan was a decomposed pyritic deposit . But not close enough , and he added another strange theory . Karl Schmeisser , a German engineer , spent ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. Engineers he came close to seeing that Morgan was a decomposed pyritic deposit . But not close enough , and he added another strange theory . Karl Schmeisser , a German engineer , spent ...
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... engineers and metallurgists crossed to Australia to manage new mines . The inflow of British capital at the end of the century brought more skilled engineers . Most big mines opened after 1886 were managed by imported engineers ...
... engineers and metallurgists crossed to Australia to manage new mines . The inflow of British capital at the end of the century brought more skilled engineers . Most big mines opened after 1886 were managed by imported engineers ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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