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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. ILLUSTRATIONS MAPS Australia , showing the chief mining districts 1 Early gold towns in New South Wales 2 Victorian gold towns 3 South Australian and Broken Hill mining fields 4 Mining towns ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. ILLUSTRATIONS MAPS Australia , showing the chief mining districts 1 Early gold towns in New South Wales 2 Victorian gold towns 3 South Australian and Broken Hill mining fields 4 Mining towns ...
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... gold towns and ten weeklies as well . Visitors admired the newspapers and respected their young aggressive editors . John Kirwan edited the Kalgoorlie Miner and Hugh Mahon the Menzies Miner ; both were eloquent Irishmen , both were ...
... gold towns and ten weeklies as well . Visitors admired the newspapers and respected their young aggressive editors . John Kirwan edited the Kalgoorlie Miner and Hugh Mahon the Menzies Miner ; both were eloquent Irishmen , both were ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. the gold towns the most prosperous in Australia . More men arrived than the expanding mines could employ , and many had to live on the generosity of the towns , getting a flap of mutton or ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. the gold towns the most prosperous in Australia . More men arrived than the expanding mines could employ , and many had to live on the generosity of the towns , getting a flap of mutton or ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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