The rush that never ended: a history of Australian mining

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 deep deposit diggers diggings dividends dray drill engineers feet floated furnaces geologist gold mines gold towns 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 mill million miners mining companies mining fields months Moonta Mount Isa Mount Lyell Mount Morgan mountains night Northern Territory nuggets paid plant Port profits prospectors quartz Queensland railway reef 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 thousand underground Victoria walked Wallaroo Western Australia wrote Zeehan zinc