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Page 53
... boom was almost over and the silver boom had petered out . For four more years the Australian economy shakily revolved , its gilt edge tarnished and its core propped up by im- ports of English capital . The silver - fields of Zeehan and ...
... boom was almost over and the silver boom had petered out . For four more years the Australian economy shakily revolved , its gilt edge tarnished and its core propped up by im- ports of English capital . The silver - fields of Zeehan and ...
Page 76
... boom . All lacked the lifeblood of western mining - capital and cheap transport ; and all lacked payable copper ... boom , the last great mining boom of the century . The economic atmosphere was favourable for a mining bubble . Australia ...
... boom . All lacked the lifeblood of western mining - capital and cheap transport ; and all lacked payable copper ... boom , the last great mining boom of the century . The economic atmosphere was favourable for a mining bubble . Australia ...
Page 106
... boom , when Parliament authorized railway surveys from those ports to Zeehan . Frozen by the depression , the plans were thawed by the copper boom , which made Mt. Lyell the goal of the fiercest railway war in Australian history . The ...
... boom , when Parliament authorized railway surveys from those ports to Zeehan . Frozen by the depression , the plans were thawed by the copper boom , which made Mt. Lyell the goal of the fiercest railway war in Australian history . The ...
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