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Title: A lump of pure, clean gold
Description: By this point reports of gold being found were common, however the newspaper report of a discovery of a ‘lump of pure, clean gold, free from quartz’ weighing 60 ounces at the Forest Creek diggings set imaginations alight once more.
Date: 27 November 1851
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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