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Tarkwa (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Tarkwa - Gold City of the Gold Coast [i.e. Ghana], 1940 - 1959

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R/31
Scope and Contents

116 x 137 mm. The caption on the reverse reads '(See Feature Set Intro. No. 506). (2). Ore from the five shafts of the A.B.A. company comes to the central mills by rope railways winding up the wooded valleys around Tarkwa. Main Reef is about 2,000 ft. down'.

Dates: 1940 - 1959
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