The rush that never ended: a history of Australian mining

Adelaide alluvial gold Australian mining Ballarat became Bendigo boom bought Boulder British Broken Hill Burra camp capital Captain Charters Towers Chinese Clunes colony company's Coolgardie copper Cornish Creek crushed deep deposit diggers diggings discovery dividends drill engineers feet floated furnaces geologist gold mines gold towns golden goldfields gravel ground Hargraves holes horses investors iron ironstone Kalgoorlie Kimberley land largest lead leases licence lode London manager Melbourne metal metallurgists mill million miners mining companies mining fields months Moonta Mount Isa Mount Lyell Mount Morgan mountains night nuggets outcrop paid plant Port profit Proprietary prospectors quartz Queensland railway reef rich river rock rode rush shaft shareholders shares sheep ships silver Silverton smelters smelting sold South Australia South Wales speculators stock exchange Sydney syndicate Tasmania thousand underground Victoria walked Wallaroo Western Australia wrote Zeehan zinc