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A comprehensive survey of the Victoria's goldfields in 1862 in response to two questions

CONTENTS

• Introductory
• The Rich Quartz Reefs of Inglewood
• The Antimony Mines of M'Ivor
• Tarnagulla and Poverty Reef
• The Silver Mines of St. Arnaud
• Bendigo (or Sandhurst)
• The Whipstick
• Maldon - Public Quartz Companies, and the Causes of their Failure
• Castlemaine
• The Chinese on the Gold-fields
• Dunolly
• Inkermann
• Ballarat
• Maryborough
• M'Ivor
• Unvisited Gold-fields
• Bulla Bulla and its Kaolin
• The Social Condition of the Miners
• Characteristics of Auriferous Quartz
• Method of Extracting Gold from Quartz
• Water-Supply for the Gold-fields
• Legislative Requirements of the Gold-fields
• The Geological Maps of the Colony
• Minerals and Metals other than Gold
• Conclusion

The whole 344 page book is searchable - useful not only for finding names, but also places, occupations and other information for family and local historians

System Requirements: Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT or better, CD drive, Adobe Acrobat. Also suitable for Macintosh or Unix operating systems.