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... gold mines to a new and faster set of dice , blocks of city and suburban land . Curiously San Francisco , the rialto for the mines of California and the Rockies , began to swap mining scrip for land titles with the same abandon about ...
... gold mines to a new and faster set of dice , blocks of city and suburban land . Curiously San Francisco , the rialto for the mines of California and the Rockies , began to swap mining scrip for land titles with the same abandon about ...
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... mines made ventilation difficult , and often no current of air blew away the dust from dead ends where men worked ... gold mines , one in four had signs of silicosis of the lungs . How many lives had been cut short by the fine dust of ...
... mines made ventilation difficult , and often no current of air blew away the dust from dead ends where men worked ... gold mines , one in four had signs of silicosis of the lungs . How many lives had been cut short by the fine dust of ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. mostly the Mining Magazine ... Gold Fields 1853-4 , vol . 3 , Select Committee on the Gold Fields ; Select ... Mines Board 1890 , vol . 2 , Report of the Mining Safety Cages Board 1890 ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. mostly the Mining Magazine ... Gold Fields 1853-4 , vol . 3 , Select Committee on the Gold Fields ; Select ... Mines Board 1890 , vol . 2 , Report of the Mining Safety Cages Board 1890 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
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