It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach—the hanged criminal—was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets “the size of walnuts.” The stories claimed that Slumach had placed a curse on a hidden ... "Shaping a nation : a geology of Australia is the story of Australia's geological evolution as seen through the lens of human impacts, illustrating both the challenges and opportunities presented by Australia's rich geological heritage" -- ... Found inside – Page 83Kaffraria , name given to Transkeian terri . Junction City , cy . ... Gold - mining and fishing . 170 Cb | Kagera ... Length , 27 m . ; breadth , 2 - 8 Important trading centre . 104 Cb m . ... Kalgoorlie , mining tn . , W . Australia , N . of W . Africa . 152 Bd ... Found inside – Page 50Cairns is the main gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Surfer's Paradise. ... Western Australia Capital city – Perth. Mining area, iron, diamonds, gold. Found insideAs ifto encourage such entrepreneurial activities by Australian soldiers, ... andthe centres ofthe prewar gold mining industrysuch asWau and Mubo, ... Found inside – Page 233It was not only the miners who felt the lure of Victorian gold. ... Perhaps the most famous was James Jeffery from Illogan, described by William L. Blamires ... Found inside – Page 581 , “ Dollar ” Gold Mine ; “ Noongal ” 1 , “ May Queen ” Gold Mine ; “ Gullawa ” 2 , " Gullawa ” Gold Mine . ... Since the advent of the Mullewa - Cue Railway the Town of Yalgoo has become quite an important and busy centre . ... Noongal was formerly known as Melville ; but , owing to the fact that another townsite further South bears that name ( Melville ) , the Honourable the Commissioner of Crown Lands ... Found inside – Page 60Australia. Aerial, Geological and Geophysical Survey of Northern Australia. Vf. CONCLUSIONS. The recently proclaimed ... It is probable that additional gold deposits will be discovered in ot centres as a large part of the area has not been ... Lamond, Phillip and Boyd H and to which the name Iron Range has been given. Found inside – Page 23During the 1870s and 80s goldmining did much to establish many coastal and inland centres in Queensland . ... main centre of the tropical Palmer field , had 10000 inhabitants in 1878 , but the name does not appear on modern atlases ; and ... Found inside – Page 1494Stickine , stickin , or Stickeen , the first being the speling Steventon , postal - stn . , S. Australia . See Teatree Gully . of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names ( from native Sta - kina , Stevington , par . , Eng . , Bedfordshire ... Important gold - mines worked Fuego , crossed by 55 ° S. , and in the E. by 71 ° W. on the river banks from 1873 to 1887 , yielding , however ... Stewart's Sound , strait between the Middle and North stieng , rude tribe , Indo - China , inbabiting the S. of the Andaman Is ... Found inside – Page 245The name , centre and river steamer port , on the from N Wales , was named after Lord steep valley side of the ... leading to a major gold - rush to the crude shack . alluvial diggings , followed by 50 years of productive reef - mining lasting until ... Found inside – Page 48WEST LODE N ° 61 N ? 7 A NO NO 9 LV a considerable development of chlorite showing thin flakes of gold on the surfaces . ... of the Sons of Gwalia lode may be followed in a northerly direction as far as the Harbour Lights Mine , some miles from Leonora . ... gold , of which over 350,000ozs . have been obtained from Mount Morgans , the centre from which the distriet derives its name . Another important centre is Murrin Murrin , which has been responsible for over 101,000ozs . , whilst ... Found inside – Page 41Name. 1. A mountainous country with a border with Guatemala. 5. Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia. 6. Important goldmining centre in Western Australia. 11. Found inside – Page 48The Mount Morgans district has produced 503,970.81ozs . of fine gold , of which over 350,000ozs . have been obtained from Mount Morgans , the centre from which the district derives its name . Another important centre is Murrin Murrin , which ... Found inside – Page 70Geology experts in the past had predicted that Australian gold would disappear ... Majorca and Carisbrook - other significant deep lead centres developed. An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and high school students. Found insideThis book drives home the understanding that, collectively, this social and economic milieu redefines our conceptualisation of resource politics, mineral dependent livelihoods, extractive geographies of resources and commodities, and their ... Found inside – Page 1494... Oakley stn . , P.O. P. < 250 . stickine , stickin , or Stickeen , the first being the spelling Steventon , postal - sin . , S. Australia . See Teatree Gully . of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names ( from native sta - kina , Stevington , par . , Eng . ... Important gold - mines worked Fuego , crossed by 55 S. , and in the E , by 71 ° ' . on the river banks from 1873 to 1887. yielding ... Stewart's sound , strait between the Middle and North Stieng , rude tribe , Indo - China , inhabiting the S. of the Andaman ... Found inside – Page xxivName the chief rivers used for irrigation in Australia . 11. What are ... More irrigation water would be a great help to the Australian fruit farmer and would increase his fruit crop . ... Name the chief gold - mining centres in famous breeds of cattle ? Found inside – Page 22By far the most important centre is East Coolgardie . ... There is a School of Mines at Kalgoorlie , the fees for students being one guinea per term per subject taken up . Coolgardie , the centre of the field bearing this name ( pop . 2 , 829 ) is 25 ... The chief places on the North Coolgardie gold - field are Menzies , Ularring , Niagara and Yerilla . ... Coal is being mined on the Collie river , 40 Western Australia . Found insideThis collection of essays represents an effort to overcome this barrier, but is also intended as a major contribution to the growth of academic and political debate about the social impact of the large-scale mining industry in Melanesia and ... Found inside... an engineer who helped to establish gold mining on the ridge here. ... Egypt From the 10th century an important trading centre, the name means 'The ... Found inside – Page 66Mt. Hood (1 1,235 ft [3,424 m]), near the centre of the forest, is Oregon's highest point. ... The name is attributed to one John Campbell Miles, who in 1923 discovered deposits of silver-lead ore and named one of his leases after his sister Isabelle. Subsequently Mount Isa Mines Ltd., the principal leaseholder, developed the minefields, which are Australia's main source ... First mined for gold, then silver, it currently yields more than 90 percent of the state's copper, mostly from low-grade ... Found inside – Page 26This approach was adopted because : 1 ) a large area containing numerous plutons had to be traversed in relatively short ... The granites of the Barrow Point Stock are referred to by informal names ; although the relationships between the ... Regular commercial flights from Caims service an exclusive resort on the island , as well as an Australian Govemment ... More than 30 known mineral occurrences , mines and prospects have been recorded in the Emerald Sheet area , with gold ... Found inside – Page 381Both the long and short ton are used in Australia . The ore is usually weighed in avoirdupois tons ( long or short ) and gold and silver in troy ounces . ... There is evidence of this in the names given to the two figures which follow ten , for we do not say oneteen ( one and ten ) , twoteen ... ( probably named from the town of Troyes , an important centre of commerce in the middle ages ) , was first applied to the ... Found insideIn exploring the rich environmental, cultural and social heritage of Bougainville before the conflict, this collection provides an insight into the long-term causes of the crisis. Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such futures. Found inside – Page 352A small township in a township in the centre of a gold - mining mining , agricultural and pastoral district , district . ... Is an important centre , and contains above sea - level , and 9400 acres in extent , churches , banks , public offices and a E . of ... The name given throughout 470 . ... Australia to persons settling and de - / St . George ' s Head , N . S . W . The most pasturing sheep and cattle on the Crown ... Found inside – Page 304The miners gold were found in gullies near the reefs , and towards the middle employed by them were not properly supervised , and ... Fortunately , managers of experience Cross soon became the most important centre in the whole had lately been appointed , and he ... It derived expressed the opinion that this mine would be a prosperous one . its name from a large mottled bar of quartz which crossed ... Found inside – Page 49Western Australia. Department of Mines. continued to do good prospecting work on the Eagle Hawk Heather ' mine , and the cheap crushing done by this company ... carrying fair values at Pinjin is of considerable importance and will eventually make Pinjin an important centre . ... Each mine being worked in the above gold fields has been inspected by me about once in every two months , and in many ... Found insideThis book, republished in its original format, shows the differences in the experience of various Papua New Guinean communities which encountered the miners and tries to explain these differences. Found inside – Page 162Name the areas where sheep is reared in Australia. ... place of natural beauty, an important industrial centre, opal mining, and Australian dairy products. Found inside – Page 65Western Australia. Dept. of Mines. Warden's Report on the East Murchison Goldfield for the year 1900 . The Under Secretary for Mines , Perth . ... A townsite has been declared and surveyed in the locality under the name of Kathleen , and the lots are now open for sale . ... When completed , this will mean an immense increase in the return of gold from this important centre , which promises to be one of the ... The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U. S. Department of Energy commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study on required technologies for the Mining Industries of the Future Program to complement ... Found inside – Page 323But it is now a derelict town and Gold mining is being maintained , but hardly a stone remains upon a stone . rising costs are ... our other agricultural in all those centres have passed out of the dustries and our gold mining industry are picture as gold ... year Western Australia produced 64,196.83 fine ounces . which I now propose to say a few words , The is very important . ... The Golden which was published in the " Kalgoorlie Mile got its name because in truth Miner " of the 19th August ... Found inside – Page 138A Descriptive and Pictorial Account of the Australian and New Zealand Colonies, Tasmania, and the Adjacent Lands ... 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