Mountain View Gold: Day Dawn and the Italians Who Made It Happen by Alex Palmer

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps and stickers on inside. Wear to book corners and edges. Binding at the front has been reinforced with hinge tape.

A new day dawned for Day Dawn WA, following a rich strike at Mountain View.

A group of Italian prospectors at Day Dawn in the 1940s, down to their uppers, defying the advice of experts, persevered for four years before they finally struck it rich. From 1945 to 1947, they worked in conditions that would not be tolerated today and brought to the surface 4,845 tons of 5.25oz/ ton ore, valued at £273,300.

Their workings were only a matter of metres from where the Great Fingall Mine, a quarter of a century earlier, had abandoned its search. (publisher blurb)