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Excerpt from Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia: With Notes Upon Telluride Treatment, Costs, and Mining Practice in Other Fields The chief objects the Author has had in view are, first, to present a history of gold-mining in the Colony; secondly, to explain the peculiar difficulties that have been encountered in the treatment of the sulpho-telluride ores of Kalgoorlie and in dealing with other local problems; thirdly, to draw a comparison between the conditions that obtain in Western Australia and other mining fields; fourthly, to show by figures of production and facts that mining in Western Australia is on a sounder footing than is at present, perhaps, generally supposed; and, fifthly, to furnish data, particularly in regard to costs, that may serve to promote future economies by calling attention to questions that may be worth studying in this connection. A number of expert writers have dealt with matters of which this book treats, but their observations are, to a large extent, buried in a mass of literature that can only be unearthed by a large amount of research. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.