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Page 87
... feet then astrology's a bloody liar . " However crazy it all was , the wholesale British purchase of undeveloped outcrops over hundreds of square miles brought about a rapid rate of prospecting - and sometimes of discovery . A few brief ...
... feet then astrology's a bloody liar . " However crazy it all was , the wholesale British purchase of undeveloped outcrops over hundreds of square miles brought about a rapid rate of prospecting - and sometimes of discovery . A few brief ...
Page 100
... feet . Unfortunately for the Government it had , only a few days earlier , offered a substantial reward to the first prospector operating on Crown Lands who raised a thousand ounces of alluvial gold from a depth greater than thirty feet ...
... feet . Unfortunately for the Government it had , only a few days earlier , offered a substantial reward to the first prospector operating on Crown Lands who raised a thousand ounces of alluvial gold from a depth greater than thirty feet ...
Page 218
... feet underground . It was one of the most dramatic mine rescues in Australia's history ; an outstanding rescue in mining annals anywhere . First the resources of a mine , then of a district , then of the whole State , were flung into ...
... feet underground . It was one of the most dramatic mine rescues in Australia's history ; an outstanding rescue in mining annals anywhere . First the resources of a mine , then of a district , then of the whole State , were flung into ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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