General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).

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[Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed abridged title annotated in ink by G. Morteson (wrappers foxed and chipped, and with a very light vertical fold); [39] leaves, typescript to rectos only; a couple of leaves unevenly trimmed at bottom edges, but complete and clean throughout. This appears to be a unique draft copy of G. Morteson s Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd. report, which was published under exactly the same title (but without Morteson s name) in 1933 by the Australian Institute of Mining Metallurgy. The final published version, which is itself rare (SLWA holds the only copy located on Trove), has [40] leaves, and contains a folding map, whereas this draft is unillustrated. Morteson s report has the following chapter headings: General description of the area and climate ; History of the mine ; Ore occurence ; Mining methods ; Ore treatment coarse crushing, grinding, flotation, filtering, roasting, cyaniding, precipitation and smelting ; Miscellaneous notes ; Milling costs per ton of ore milled (July 1933) ; Power House at Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd . Wiluna is situated on the edge of the Western Desert, on the native title of the Ngaanyatjarra people. Gold was first discovered in the are

• Binding: Hardcover

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