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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Page 107
... lode was in the wilderness eighty miles or so north of Adelaide , and the shopkeepers sent surveyor Finke to see the lode . Finke had managed a lead mine at Glen Osmond and at once he saw that the distant copper lode was infinitely more ...
... lode was in the wilderness eighty miles or so north of Adelaide , and the shopkeepers sent surveyor Finke to see the lode . Finke had managed a lead mine at Glen Osmond and at once he saw that the distant copper lode was infinitely more ...
Page 152
... lode of clay and decomposed rock that swelled and shifted when exposed to air from shafts and drives . In an ... lode at Broken Hill . Even after many local mines had adapted and varied it , the sheer pressure of the lode occasionally ...
... lode of clay and decomposed rock that swelled and shifted when exposed to air from shafts and drives . In an ... lode at Broken Hill . Even after many local mines had adapted and varied it , the sheer pressure of the lode occasionally ...
Page 266
... lode and spurned the cinderellas at the distant ends of the lode . In their own lifetime they would have become wealthier if they had followed the lode to north and south instead of moving into steel . The long boomerang of a lode ...
... lode and spurned the cinderellas at the distant ends of the lode . In their own lifetime they would have become wealthier if they had followed the lode to north and south instead of moving into steel . The long boomerang of a lode ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 45 |
Golds Conquest | 57 |
Copyright | |
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