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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... quartz or alluvial . A further attempt to locate gold in Western Australia was made by bringing sixteen miners from Ballarat and finding them with equipment , food and 25s . per week while prospecting the ranges near the coast . In 1885 ...
... quartz or alluvial . A further attempt to locate gold in Western Australia was made by bringing sixteen miners from Ballarat and finding them with equipment , food and 25s . per week while prospecting the ranges near the coast . In 1885 ...
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... quartz outcrops ir all this Eastern 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 ...
... quartz outcrops ir all this Eastern 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 ...
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... quartz , all fairly bare of vegetation , owing to the excess of ionstone on the surface , should pick the best and richest spot at the first attempt . They " pouched " about 200 ounces in three or four weeks , when rations became short ...
... quartz , all fairly bare of vegetation , owing to the excess of ionstone on the surface , should pick the best and richest spot at the first attempt . They " pouched " about 200 ounces in three or four weeks , when rations became short ...
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... quartz vein followed were the whole of the lode matter . Much of the dioritic material on the dump , classed as country , was very full of chlorite , quartz veins , and pyrites , and was , in my opinion , lode - stuff . The reef runs ...
... quartz vein followed were the whole of the lode matter . Much of the dioritic material on the dump , classed as country , was very full of chlorite , quartz veins , and pyrites , and was , in my opinion , lode - stuff . The reef runs ...
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... quartz veins masses of highly folliated schist occur and these folliations are most marked in the neighbourhood of ... quartz veins , the lode material being too low grade to pay for removing . In places bunches of high grade quartz were ...
... quartz veins masses of highly folliated schist occur and these folliations are most marked in the neighbourhood of ... quartz veins , the lode material being too low grade to pay for removing . In places bunches of high grade quartz were ...
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