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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. The causes of the mining revival puzzled thoughtful men of those days and historians of ours . The first cause was obvious - new mining fields . More than half of the wealth mined in 1900 ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. The causes of the mining revival puzzled thoughtful men of those days and historians of ours . The first cause was obvious - new mining fields . More than half of the wealth mined in 1900 ...
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... mines from the 1880s ? It was attracted less by new fields than by changes in the money market . Before 1880 Australian mining investors rarely bought shares in mines outside their own district or colony . In the 1880s the scope for ...
... mines from the 1880s ? It was attracted less by new fields than by changes in the money market . Before 1880 Australian mining investors rarely bought shares in mines outside their own district or colony . In the 1880s the scope for ...
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... mining companies , as their profits fell lower in 1893 , to reduce wages and ... fields . So long as a copper or lead field was new or the price of its ... fields were such that workers ' capitalism tended to decline more quickly than on ...
... mining companies , as their profits fell lower in 1893 , to reduce wages and ... fields . So long as a copper or lead field was new or the price of its ... fields were such that workers ' capitalism tended to decline more quickly than on ...
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