Of Moles and Men (February 1975)
Miners are a breed apart from other men, many preferring to work underground even when offered another job on the surface.
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Dry Panning (August 1978)
The lack of water in many parts of Australia, makes dry panning the only feasible way to check beds for the precious yellow metal.
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World History of Gold (August 1979)
Even before the dawn of recorded time gold has gripped mankind’s heart and soul in an enduring and passionate embrace.
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History in the Making (August 1980)
On the banks of the St. Lawrence, more than 400 years ago, the French explorer Jacques Cartier heard Indians tell of gold and precious stones that abounded in this new world.
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Age-Old Techniques of the Goldsmith (February 1980)
When Michael Ayrton, the painter, and the goldsmith, John Donald, succeeded in reproducing the legendary golden honey-comb of Dedalus, they were asserting a truth about the past which was new to many people.
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The Mining History of the Sudbury Area (Spring 1983)
August 1883, Thomas Flanagan, a blacksmith on the Canadian Pacific Railway, noticed a rust coloured patch of rock while working with a crew in a recently blasted rock cut north-west of present-day Sudbury.
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