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... mining now calls for a larger revision . To this edition ten thousand words have been added on the new mining fields . A few corrections have also been made to earlier chapters ; for example the story of the famous Egerton lawsuit of ...
... mining now calls for a larger revision . To this edition ten thousand words have been added on the new mining fields . A few corrections have also been made to earlier chapters ; for example the story of the famous Egerton lawsuit of ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. The causes of the mining revival puzzled thoughtful men of those days and historians of ours . The first cause was obvious - new mining fields . More than half of the wealth mined in 1900 ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. The causes of the mining revival puzzled thoughtful men of those days and historians of ours . The first cause was obvious - new mining fields . More than half of the wealth mined in 1900 ...
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... mines from the 1880s ? It was attracted less by new fields than by changes in the money market . Before 1880 Australian mining investors rarely bought shares in mines outside their own district or colony . In the 1880s the scope for ...
... mines from the 1880s ? It was attracted less by new fields than by changes in the money market . Before 1880 Australian mining investors rarely bought shares in mines outside their own district or colony . In the 1880s the scope for ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Victorias Rushes | 28 |
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition | 46 |
Copyright | |
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