Gold Getting Days by John Meiklejohn gold-pans-sieves-and-loupes cannibals and diamonds in The

cannibals and diamonds in The Odyssey of a Digger

both amateur and professional

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The pastoral age was a grand age while it lasted - in Western Australia that was approximately one hundred years

Gold Getting Days by John Meiklejohn gold-pans-sieves-and-loupes cannibals and diamonds in TheGold Getting Days by John Meiklejohn John Meiklejohn was one of the best known prospectors of the Coolgardie and later goldrushes of the 1890s. He came from Scotland to New Zealand and Victoria and then to Western Australia for gold. Rich gold strikes led to him heading for London to sell his claims, resulting in introductions to some of the most powerful financial figures of the time. Later came the South African war and prospecting in the Klondyke,