The Rush that Never Ended: A History of Australian MiningAustralia is one of the world's great sources of mineral treasures. Out of the ground, on land and at sea, has come wealth to create a host of lucrative industries. Our landscape is littered with mines and mining towns bearing evocative names like Rum Jungle, Noble's Nob, Broad Arrow, Bordeaux and Siberia, and stories abound of fortunes won and lost. 'The rush that never ended' tells the story of these mineral discoveries, describes the giants of Australia's mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on Australia's attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics. |
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... became a politician , dying in his early thirties . Alfred Hales won fame as British correspondent in the Boer War and as author of over sixty books , many of them best sellers in the United States , many of them capturing the raucous ...
... became a politician , dying in his early thirties . Alfred Hales won fame as British correspondent in the Boer War and as author of over sixty books , many of them best sellers in the United States , many of them capturing the raucous ...
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... became an influential director just when it was beginning its long run of dividends . At the other end of the field he was in the syndicate which cheaply bought half the shares in the mine that eventually became the Zinc Corporation's ...
... became an influential director just when it was beginning its long run of dividends . At the other end of the field he was in the syndicate which cheaply bought half the shares in the mine that eventually became the Zinc Corporation's ...
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... became less forbidding to mineral explorers . Taxes were modified , mining leases became larger , and industrial unrest seemed to diminish at the very time when Indonesia , Bolivia and many of the former havens of international mining ...
... became less forbidding to mineral explorers . Taxes were modified , mining leases became larger , and industrial unrest seemed to diminish at the very time when Indonesia , Bolivia and many of the former havens of international mining ...
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
THE GOLDSEEKERS | 3 |
Pickpockets Gold | 5 |
Copyright | |
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