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Page 144
... price of gold . The successful , illegal gold - buyers are shrewd men , and generally hard ones . They know gold and the people they deal with , and the fate of various big - city crooks who have gone to the goldfields to grab some of ...
... price of gold . The successful , illegal gold - buyers are shrewd men , and generally hard ones . They know gold and the people they deal with , and the fate of various big - city crooks who have gone to the goldfields to grab some of ...
Page 175
... gold - boom town , treating low - grade ore that had been of no use to anybody until the rise in the price of gold . The Big Bell , a vast and dangerous “ open cut " in which the miners clung to the sides of cliffs on ropes and in ...
... gold - boom town , treating low - grade ore that had been of no use to anybody until the rise in the price of gold . The Big Bell , a vast and dangerous “ open cut " in which the miners clung to the sides of cliffs on ropes and in ...
Page 207
... gold .... During the seventy years since the first shafts were sunk on the ... price of the commodity . A rise in costs hits a goldmining company in ... price for gold of £ 15 12s . 6d . an ounce , it has been necessary for the companies ...
... gold .... During the seventy years since the first shafts were sunk on the ... price of the commodity . A rise in costs hits a goldmining company in ... price for gold of £ 15 12s . 6d . an ounce , it has been necessary for the companies ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
Copyright | |
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