'Sunbeams from cucumbers': an early twentieth-century gold-from-seawater extraction scheme in northern New South Wales

Worldwide interest developed in the late nineteenth century in devising practical means of extracting the minute amounts of gold that were by then known to be present in seawater. Of the many schemes devised, only two are known to have resulted in the construction and operation of plant on a commerc...

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Veröffentlicht in:Australasian Historical Archaeology. - The Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology. - 26(2008) vom: Jan., Seite 5-12
1. Verfasser: STUBBS, BRETT J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2008
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Australasian Historical Archaeology
Schlagworte:Physical sciences Business Law Applied sciences