The Gold Mines of Western Australia: A Terse Description of Conditions Past and Present of Australia's Greatest Mining BeltH. V. Courtayne |
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... goldfield , and has represented this important goldfields constituency continuously for over 10 years . He is a minister who has held a portfolio longer than any other adviser of the Crown in the present Parliament of Western Australia ...
... goldfield , and has represented this important goldfields constituency continuously for over 10 years . He is a minister who has held a portfolio longer than any other adviser of the Crown in the present Parliament of Western Australia ...
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... Goldfields ! Instead of the tent , or the open - air , with the heavens for a canopy , the place ( Kalgoorlie ) from whence the bulk of the gold of the State has been produced , the mainspring of the industry , is to - day an inland ...
... Goldfields ! Instead of the tent , or the open - air , with the heavens for a canopy , the place ( Kalgoorlie ) from whence the bulk of the gold of the State has been produced , the mainspring of the industry , is to - day an inland ...
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... goldfields , rich alluvial gold was discovered . At the time of this writing the In the same year , 1888 , tin was discovered at Greenbushes , in the South - West , by a Mr. Stanton , who by mere chance found stanniferous prospects in ...
... goldfields , rich alluvial gold was discovered . At the time of this writing the In the same year , 1888 , tin was discovered at Greenbushes , in the South - West , by a Mr. Stanton , who by mere chance found stanniferous prospects in ...
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... Goldfields country , barrer as many quartz outcrops undoubtedly are , but what is equally true is that no Australian gold pro- spector had ever passed over any of these fields until the days of the " rushes " set in . Copper Found in ...
... Goldfields country , barrer as many quartz outcrops undoubtedly are , but what is equally true is that no Australian gold pro- spector had ever passed over any of these fields until the days of the " rushes " set in . Copper Found in ...
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... Goldfields with water , managed to rub along in these peripatetic , or , shall I say , mushroom like booms in mining , the old identities alone can tell you . That the capital of the colony did get along fairly well is shown by the way ...
... Goldfields with water , managed to rub along in these peripatetic , or , shall I say , mushroom like booms in mining , the old identities alone can tell you . That the capital of the colony did get along fairly well is shown by the way ...
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acres alluvial amalgamation Arbitration Act assay value average awards Boulder Main Reef Brown Hill capital Chamber of Mines chute company's compulsory arbitration Coolgardie copper cost Court crosscut cyanide depth district dividends East Coolgardie East Murchison employer engine erected field firewood furnace Gold Mines Golden Horseshoe Golden Mile Goldfields grade Graham Price Hannan's Star Hill Ingliston Inspector Ivanhoe Kalgoorlie Kurrawang Labor Lake View Consols lease lode London machinery main shaft manager Meekatharra Melbourne ment mineral mining industry month Morgans North Coolgardie opened operations Oroya Oroya-Brownhill Output paid payable person Phillips River plant produced profit Proprietary prospecting prospectors quartz railway roasting shareholders shares slime smelting Sons of Gwalia South Kalgurli Southern Cross stamp mill suction gas sulphide supply syndicate timber tion tonnage tons treated treatment wages West Australian Western Australia Westralia width winze workers Yilgarn Zealand