The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningMaps on lining papers Includes index Bibliography: p 344-357. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 63
Page 46
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. D 4 BALLARAT'S DITCH OF PERDITION IGGERS WHO VISITED Ballarat late in 1852 saw it reviving . The exodus from Ballarat to new rushes had burnt itself out , and diggers who knew the charming ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. D 4 BALLARAT'S DITCH OF PERDITION IGGERS WHO VISITED Ballarat late in 1852 saw it reviving . The exodus from Ballarat to new rushes had burnt itself out , and diggers who knew the charming ...
Page 50
... Ballarat : small companies of ten or twelve working shareholders and perhaps an equal number of sleeping shareholders . A royal commission visiting Ballarat at the end of 1854 saw the remarkable rise of syndicates and companies , saw ...
... Ballarat : small companies of ten or twelve working shareholders and perhaps an equal number of sleeping shareholders . A royal commission visiting Ballarat at the end of 1854 saw the remarkable rise of syndicates and companies , saw ...
Page 51
... Ballarat's many leads the shepherders idled away the days , sanctioned by law but cursed by opinion . Men sinking nearby shafts cursed the shepherders who did not share in baling the water from ... Ballarat Ballarat's Ditch of Perdition 51.
... Ballarat's many leads the shepherders idled away the days , sanctioned by law but cursed by opinion . Men sinking nearby shafts cursed the shepherders who did not share in baling the water from ... Ballarat Ballarat's Ditch of Perdition 51.
Other editions - View all
The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining. -- Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
Adelaide alluvial gold Australian mining Ballarat became Bendigo boom bought Boulder Broken Hill Burra camp capital Captain Charters Towers Chinese Clunes colony company's Coolgardie copper Cornish Creek crushed deep deposit diggers diggings dividends drill engineers feet floated furnaces gambling geologist gold mines golden goldfields gravel ground Hargraves holes horses hundred industry investors iron ironstone Kalgoorlie Kimberley land lead leases licence lode London manager Melbourne metal metallurgists miles million miners mining companies mining fields months Moonta Mount Isa Mount Lyell Mount Morgan mountains nearly night Northern Territory nuggets ounces paid plant Port profit prospectors quartz Queensland railway reefs reports rich river rock rode rush shaft shareholders shares sheep shepherd ships silver Silverton smelters smelting sold South Australia South Wales speculators stock exchange Sydney syndicate Tasmania Tennant Creek thousand underground Victoria walked Wallaroo Western Australia wrote Zeehan zinc