The Golden Reefs An Account Of The Great Days Of Quartz Mining At Reefton, Waiuta And The Lyell

Author: Darrell Latham

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  • : $150.00 NZD
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  • : 9780908568123
  • : Nikau Press
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  • : January 1992
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  • : 75.0
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  • : Darrell Latham
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  • : Hardback with dust jacket
  • : 2nd edition
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  • : 622/.3422/099371
  • : very good
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Barcode 9780908568123
9780908568123

Local Description

A depiction of an age of colourful characters, and the many ways they made money on the West Coast goldfields; searching implacably for hidden reefs, claim-jumping, or endless litigation.  This is the story of the Victorian-era wrecked machines whose providence had them shipped from Melbourne to Wesport, and dragged piecemeal by riverboat and sledge to the out of the way fields.

VG/Fair.  Crease to spine, some bruising of board corners.  DJ worn and chipped, with some losses.