The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining

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Melbourne University Press, 1993 - Business & Economics - 414 pages
Three decades after publication, The Rush that Never Ended provides an account of an important part of Australia's economic history. New chapters tell the story of the changes in mining in the last 20 years.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Ballarats Ditch of Perdition
45
Golds Conquest
57
Copyright

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About the author (1993)

Geoffrey Blainey is an Australian historian, born 1930 in Melbourne, Victoria. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He taught at the University of Melbourne and held chairs in economic history and history. He taught at Harvard University as a visiting professor of Australian Studies. He has written over 36 and is the author of The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia for which he was a joint winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian history.

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