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Quartz Nugget (specimen number 4)

A bar of gold 45x 10x 7.5 mm

projecting from a mass of jasper and quartz.

Mt Malcolm district

Franco- British Exhibition (1909)

Quartz Nugget (specimen 6)

(see also 000121-34)

Two samples of jagged gold in 10mm wide veins of what

appears to be Metamorphised acid volcanic quartz, possibly with biotite.

Prospecting area 490g, Kunnanalling

British Empire Exhibition (1927)

View of Kalgoorlie with Hannans Railway Station in foreground, British Arms Hotel behind Station.

Railway opened 1896, Loopline 1897.

Showing behind Station Shops on 2 Egan Street - Ashton and Badham Art Decorators, Hammond Horace Marteenson?, Wine Saloon, Melville Miss Refreshment Rooms.

RP McInerey & CO. Building, Egan St., corner. Built 1906, used by electrical and mining engineers,

Advertising Eagle Star British Dominions Insurance Co,

"Skull - Bone & Pig Society" dinner. Men only, seated on benches at trestle tables. Australian and British flags.

G H Rainsford & Co Auctioneers, postcard saying 'Off to Esperance" sign over shop front also says, Norwich Union & South British Insurance Coy' Four men in motor vehicle with lots of luggage and one man standing in road outside shop.

Museum attendant Frank Thompson with Victor Dobell admiring the old clock on the British Arms Hotel at the Golden Mile Museum.