Sometimes the water in Costerfield is a good thing:
The story goes that a heavy thunder shower having
fallen the previous evening and washed off the rusty coating that usually
discolours such outcrops, the surface of the “big rock,” as it was called,
appeared in the morning sun as a glittering white mass.
H. S.
Whitelaw, 1926, No. 50: The Costerfield Auriferous Antimony Veins,
Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria, p. 5.
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Sometimes it's not such a good thing after all:
With the heavy influx of meteoric water, baling has
become irksome, but with the likelihood of nearby cessation of that trouble,
conditions should improve and permit of less costly extensions of operations in
directions in which, indications suggest, such work might lead to discovery of
ore shoots other than those that have in whole or part been dealt with.
H. S.
Whitelaw, 1926, No. 50: The Costerfield Auriferous Antimony Veins, Bulletins
of the Geological Survey of Victoria, p. 23.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
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