The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningThree decades after publication, The Rush that Never Ended provides an account of an important part of Australia's economic history. New chapters tell the story of the changes in mining in the last 20 years. |
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... South Wales . I shall be a baron , you will be knighted , and my old horse will be stuffed , put into a glass case and sent to the British Museum . ' Hargraves did not become a baron , but he did become a justice of the peace ...
... South Wales . I shall be a baron , you will be knighted , and my old horse will be stuffed , put into a glass case and sent to the British Museum . ' Hargraves did not become a baron , but he did become a justice of the peace ...
Page 127
... South Wales became the hope of the industry . On the dry western plains the decomposing copper ores coloured rocks in many places with the sapphire blue of azurite and the dark green of chalcocite and the turquoise blue of malachite ...
... South Wales became the hope of the industry . On the dry western plains the decomposing copper ores coloured rocks in many places with the sapphire blue of azurite and the dark green of chalcocite and the turquoise blue of malachite ...
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... South Wales gold statistics ; Miners ' Phthisis : Report of an Investigation at Bendigo ... by Walter Summons ( 1907 ) ; The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria , a voluminous and essential work by R. Brough Smyth ( 1869 ) ...
... South Wales gold statistics ; Miners ' Phthisis : Report of an Investigation at Bendigo ... by Walter Summons ( 1907 ) ; The Gold Fields and Mineral Districts of Victoria , a voluminous and essential work by R. Brough Smyth ( 1869 ) ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 45 |
Golds Conquest | 57 |
Copyright | |
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