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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 75
... boom journalism , for the Mt. Lyell Company had sponsored this special edition of the Herald to acquaint its two thousand shareholders of the opening ceremonies . Yet these sentiments thundered through the mining columns of most papers ...
... boom journalism , for the Mt. Lyell Company had sponsored this special edition of the Herald to acquaint its two thousand shareholders of the opening ceremonies . Yet these sentiments thundered through the mining columns of most papers ...
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 ...
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