The rush that never ended: a history of Australian mining |
What people are saying - Write a review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - nandadevi - LibraryThingThe history of mining is central to Australian history, from the gold rushes of the 1860's which brought hundreds of thousand of immigrants, to the mountain ranges of iron ore and immense natural gas ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Little Excitement | 13 |
Speculators at one of Kalgoorlies share markets 1890s | 16 |
Copyright | |
32 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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