Item #103530 Prospecting for Gold. From the Dish to the Hydraulic Plant, and from the Dolly to the Stamper Battery. With chapters on Tin, Osmiridium, Platinum, Opals and Oil. Ion L. Idriess.

Prospecting for Gold. From the Dish to the Hydraulic Plant, and from the Dolly to the Stamper Battery. With chapters on Tin, Osmiridium, Platinum, Opals and Oil.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936. Introd. F.S. Mance; with a chapter on 'Prospecting for Oil' by Dr. W.G. Woolnough. Octavo, original orange cloth boards, b&w illus, glossary, index, pp x, 293 plus 9 pp publisher's ads. Very good condition.

A classic of gold prospecting. "This book is written to help the new hand who ventures into the bush seeking gold. The writer is trying to put into these chapters the practical experience of twenty years." (Idriess, p. 1.) Includes two chapeters on opal-mining. Item #103530

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