PROSPECTOR'S LUCK
GOLD NUGGET FOUND WORN SOLES RESPONSIBLE Suffering because of the worn soles of his boots as he stumbled across old alluvial workings at Mulgabbie, near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Alfred Blenkinson, a 72-year-old prospector, bemoaned the fact that he had no money to buy a new pair. As he picked his way painfully across the pld .tailings heaps, the scene of many a rich nnd two decades ago, stones pierced the paper-thinness of nis soles. Suddenly he was brought up short with an exclamation of pain as a sharp piece jabbed through. Bending down he extracted from his boot a 2J-oz. nugget of gold worth £2O.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23017, 20 April 1938, Page 7
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