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 104
... metal mine . This riddle can be simply explained . Metal deposits were close to the main port of Adelaide and so were soon seen and easily developed . Amongst the settlers of that paradise of civil and religious freedom were miners from ...
... metal mine . This riddle can be simply explained . Metal deposits were close to the main port of Adelaide and so were soon seen and easily developed . Amongst the settlers of that paradise of civil and religious freedom were miners from ...
Page 296
... metal field had small bargaining power . Broken Hill presaged troubles that would worry most base - metal fields . So long as a copper or lead field was new or the price of its metals high , there was small danger of a sharp rift ...
... metal field had small bargaining power . Broken Hill presaged troubles that would worry most base - metal fields . So long as a copper or lead field was new or the price of its metals high , there was small danger of a sharp rift ...
Page 382
... metal - bearing rock and extracting the metal Claim : a square of Crown land which a gold digger held and worked by virtue of his licence or miner's right . A claim was smaller , cheaper , and less secure than a mining lease . Cradle a ...
... metal - bearing rock and extracting the metal Claim : a square of Crown land which a gold digger held and worked by virtue of his licence or miner's right . A claim was smaller , cheaper , and less secure than a mining lease . Cradle a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 45 |
Golds Conquest | 57 |
Copyright | |
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