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Page 37
... quartz outcrop - which later became Bayley's Reward Mine , a mile or so from Fly Flat , was discovered . Until then they had found only alluvial gold . Ford described their momentous find quite casually : After we got back to Fly Flat ...
... quartz outcrop - which later became Bayley's Reward Mine , a mile or so from Fly Flat , was discovered . Until then they had found only alluvial gold . Ford described their momentous find quite casually : After we got back to Fly Flat ...
Page 62
... quartz reef , but there was a " lode composed of ironstone , small quartz veins , decom- posed greenstone , and porphyry all mixed together . " Cammilleri's lode matter was later the Brown Hill - Oroya Shoot , which , at various depths ...
... quartz reef , but there was a " lode composed of ironstone , small quartz veins , decom- posed greenstone , and porphyry all mixed together . " Cammilleri's lode matter was later the Brown Hill - Oroya Shoot , which , at various depths ...
Page 125
... quartz reefs were left because the material was too hard to raise and too hard to treat . Hard rock treatment and deep mining proceeded cautiously over the years , for there was little risk- capital to waste on experimental development ...
... quartz reefs were left because the material was too hard to raise and too hard to treat . Hard rock treatment and deep mining proceeded cautiously over the years , for there was little risk- capital to waste on experimental development ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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