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Title: Great success on the Mount Alexander diggings
Description: While other diggings were being abandoned for want of profitable yields, there were reports from Mount Alexander of people finding 45, 50 and even 95 pounds of gold!
Date: 27 April 1853
Published Source: Australian National Dictionary Centre, The Gold Rushes and Australian English: a resource for researchers, teachers and students, Australian National University, 2005, http://www.anu.edu.au/andc/res/aus_words/gold/index.php. [ Details... ]
Rights: This material is provided by the Australian National Dictionary Centre, a joint project of the Australian National University and Oxford University Press Australia.

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