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 62
Page 183
... prospectors spread like stars in a clearing sky . Pastoralists moving north from the wind - swirled port of Esperance found gold in the Dundas Hills , and gold - seekers moved south from Coolgardie and found Norseman , still rich in ...
... prospectors spread like stars in a clearing sky . Pastoralists moving north from the wind - swirled port of Esperance found gold in the Dundas Hills , and gold - seekers moved south from Coolgardie and found Norseman , still rich in ...
Page 185
... prospectors began to move out . Frost and Tregurtha went to the Klondike , Carnegie went to Nigeria to die from a poisoned arrow , and many of the most daring of Western Australian prospectors were in the wildernesses of the world long ...
... prospectors began to move out . Frost and Tregurtha went to the Klondike , Carnegie went to Nigeria to die from a poisoned arrow , and many of the most daring of Western Australian prospectors were in the wildernesses of the world long ...
Page 319
... prospectors and therefore likely to con- ceal the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie of the twentieth century . In fact , many skilled explorers and geologists and prospectors had gone through or near the ranges . Ernest Giles had passed by in ...
... prospectors and therefore likely to con- ceal the Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie of the twentieth century . In fact , many skilled explorers and geologists and prospectors had gone through or near the ranges . Ernest Giles had passed by in ...
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