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... industry is and was radically different from metal mining . Coal was less a speculative industry , was not an outback industry , had no metallurgical problems ; its industrial tensions differed , its markets differed , and it was not ...
... industry is and was radically different from metal mining . Coal was less a speculative industry , was not an outback industry , had no metallurgical problems ; its industrial tensions differed , its markets differed , and it was not ...
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... industry usually declines in relative importance as a country becomes urbanized and industrialized , and on a population basis the Australian industry now is naturally not so productive as it was at the start of the century . As an ...
... industry usually declines in relative importance as a country becomes urbanized and industrialized , and on a population basis the Australian industry now is naturally not so productive as it was at the start of the century . As an ...
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... industry recovered so strongly since the war and that so many new lodes and fields have been found . Simply in terms of purchasing power , the industry now produces nearly as much income as it produced at the peak of the revival early ...
... industry recovered so strongly since the war and that so many new lodes and fields have been found . Simply in terms of purchasing power , the industry now produces nearly as much income as it produced at the peak of the revival early ...
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey No preview available - 2021 |
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