What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningUser Review - Erica - GoodreadsA wonderful book, dense with information. Deserves a second reading to glean it all. But what can you expect from a history of mining in a major mining country done in under 400 pages? Well written ... Read full review Review: The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningUser Review - notgettingenough - GoodreadsThis must surely be so out of date as to be useless. It doesn't surprise me that it ignored much that was important in the first place. Read full review Related books
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22 other sections not shown Common terms and phrasesAdelaide alluvial gold Australian mining Ballarat bauxite became Bendigo boom bought Boulder Burra camp capital Captain century Charters Towers Chinese colony company's Coolgardie copper Cornish Creek deep deposit diggers diggings discovery dividends drill engineers feet floated furnaces geologist gold mines gold towns golden goldfields gravel ground Hargraves holes horses hundred industry investors iron ironstone Kalgoorlie land lead leases licence lode London manager Melbourne metal metallurgists miles mill million miners mining companies mining fields Moonta Mount Isa Mount Lyell Mount Morgan mountains nearly nickel North Northern Territory nuggets ounces outcrop paid plant Port profits prospectors quartz Queensland railway reefs rich river rock rode rush shaft shareholders shares sheep ships silver Silverton smelters smelting sold South Australia South Wales speculators stock exchange Sydney syndicate Tasmania thousand underground uranium Victoria Wallaroo Western Australia wrote Zeehan zinc Bibliographic information |