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... nugget , and his neighbours found nuggets close to the grassroots one of them a deep yellow piece of 157 ounces that took the majestic name of ' King of the Waterworn Nuggets ' . Bathurst might be mad but the colony was not . The mails ...
... nugget , and his neighbours found nuggets close to the grassroots one of them a deep yellow piece of 157 ounces that took the majestic name of ' King of the Waterworn Nuggets ' . Bathurst might be mad but the colony was not . The mails ...
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... nuggets from one of Aus- tralia's richest surface goldfields , a field which almost a century later could still produce nuggets including a rugged lump worth £ 1,300 and known as the Wedderburn Dog . The discovery of magnificent nuggets ...
... nuggets from one of Aus- tralia's richest surface goldfields , a field which almost a century later could still produce nuggets including a rugged lump worth £ 1,300 and known as the Wedderburn Dog . The discovery of magnificent nuggets ...
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... Nugget , a dazzling lump of 2,217 ounces found by twenty - two Cornishmen not far from the site of Ballarat East railway station in 1858 , and it in turn had snatched the record from a long series of beautiful nuggets . At the White ...
... Nugget , a dazzling lump of 2,217 ounces found by twenty - two Cornishmen not far from the site of Ballarat East railway station in 1858 , and it in turn had snatched the record from a long series of beautiful nuggets . At the White ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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