The First New Mine

There was never much difficulty about shipping gold to wherever it was needed during the war. There were even occasions when consignments of bullion travelled like royal personages in the ships of His Majesty’s Navy. Then nothing less than a cruiser and an armed guard would do. But it was a different story altogether when it came to shipping the tools of the trade required to mine the ore that produced the gold. A great deal of very expensive mining equipment is now lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean among the bones of the ships that were torpedoed. And if you could still read the labels on those rusted relics you would find that they were on their way to the Sub Nigel Gold Mining Company or the Venterspost Gold Mining Company or possibly even to Lake View and Star.

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