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  2. Mount Boppy Gold Mine - Wikipedia

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    The gold-bearing quartz reef varied in thickness, from 12 feet up to 37 feet. A 200 ton bulk sample, averaged slightly over 16 pennyweights (0.8 troy ounces) to the ton. In 1900, the Mount Boppy Gold-Mining Company was formed, in London, to exploit the newly-proven, large, rich deposit. By July 1900, work on establishing the mine was well under ...

  3. Hill End Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Early efforts were focussed on alluvial gold and the towns of Hill End and Tambaroora grew up around the creeks and dams worked for that purpose. In 1859, with the imposition of an urban plan for Hill End, the town grew in a more orderly fashion and by the height of the second, larger rush in 1872, it was the largest inland settlement in the ...

  4. Grenfell, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Between 1867 and 1869 over 1,100 kilograms (40,000 oz) of gold were produced each year on the Grenfell goldfields and were the richest gold fields in NSW during this time. Grenfell was a goldmining town first known as Emu Creek and renamed in honour of John Grenfell, Gold Commissioner at Forbes, who had been killed in 1866 when bushrangers ...

  5. Placer mining - Wikipedia

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    The gold bearing gravel is accessed by shafts and drives similar to underground mining techniques but is typically processed as if alluvial gold. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The heat associated with an igneous lava flow, in some cases, altered the gold bearing gravel so that it needed to be crushed first to extract the gold; an example of this kind of ...

  6. Canbelego - Wikipedia

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    The area now known as Canbelego is part of the traditional lands of Wangaaypuwan dialect speakers (also known as Wangaibon) of Ngiyampaa people. [8] [9]The Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell and his expedition had camped and obtained water, in early 1845, at a place that he called "Canbelego" but that was not the later site of the village; it was a location—on Bogan River, near to the modern ...

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