Claude Albo de Bernales (31 May 1876 - 9 December 1963) was a mining entrepreneur from Western Australia whose business activities and marketing did much to stimulate investment in Western Australia during the early years if the twentieth century. During the 1930s gold production in the State increased from £1,600,000 to £11,800,000 and employment in the industry quadrupled due in considerable part to de Bernales' marketing of the goldfields to overseas investors.De Bernales accumulated immense wealth through complex and elaborate schemes by which he acquired many mining companies and attracted overseas investment and personal support.

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  • 1876
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  • 1963
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  • Claude Albo de Bernales (31 May 1876 - 9 December 1963) was a mining entrepreneur from Western Australia whose business activities and marketing did much to stimulate investment in Western Australia during the early years if the twentieth century. During the 1930s gold production in the State increased from £1,600,000 to £11,800,000 and employment in the industry quadrupled due in considerable part to de Bernales' marketing of the goldfields to overseas investors.De Bernales accumulated immense wealth through complex and elaborate schemes by which he acquired many mining companies and attracted overseas investment and personal support. In the latter part of his life however, financial difficulties and ill-health saw him live as a recluse in London. (en)
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  • "Claude de Bernales" (en)
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  • de Bernales in 1954 (en)
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  • Claude Albo de Bernales (31 May 1876 - 9 December 1963) was a mining entrepreneur from Western Australia whose business activities and marketing did much to stimulate investment in Western Australia during the early years if the twentieth century. During the 1930s gold production in the State increased from £1,600,000 to £11,800,000 and employment in the industry quadrupled due in considerable part to de Bernales' marketing of the goldfields to overseas investors.De Bernales accumulated immense wealth through complex and elaborate schemes by which he acquired many mining companies and attracted overseas investment and personal support. (en)
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  • Claude de Bernales (en)
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