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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 . Britain lost interest in overseas mines even before it ceased to be the world's great financier . When ... industries in Australia . From that bulging sum they spent a pittance in the risky search for new mines . Australians ...
... industry . Britain lost interest in overseas mines even before it ceased to be the world's great financier . When ... industries in Australia . From that bulging sum they spent a pittance in the risky search for new mines . Australians ...
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... industry . At the age of thirty he managed four British oil companies at Baku on the Caspian Sea , but , narrowly ... industrial kingdom . Then came the Russian revolution of 1917 , and his work was swallowed . He lodged a claim for £ 56 ...
... industry . At the age of thirty he managed four British oil companies at Baku on the Caspian Sea , but , narrowly ... industrial kingdom . Then came the Russian revolution of 1917 , and his work was swallowed . He lodged a claim for £ 56 ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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