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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... capital and accelerating their decline . It is likely that the growth of Australian trade and manufactures dislocated the goldfields rather than the decline of the goldfields created problems in the cities . Recent scholars have had a ...
... capital and accelerating their decline . It is likely that the growth of Australian trade and manufactures dislocated the goldfields rather than the decline of the goldfields created problems in the cities . Recent scholars have had a ...
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... capital . De Bernales failed to raise the capital in France on the eve of World War I , but in the 1920s his company finally found that a complicated process entailing grinding , floating , roasting , cyaniding , and smelting would ...
... capital . De Bernales failed to raise the capital in France on the eve of World War I , but in the 1920s his company finally found that a complicated process entailing grinding , floating , roasting , cyaniding , and smelting would ...
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... capital became stormy . Another barrier was overcome in the post - war years . The large mining companies began to search continuously for new deposits . Before 1939 most of the capital for exploration had come from the floating of new ...
... capital became stormy . Another barrier was overcome in the post - war years . The large mining companies began to search continuously for new deposits . Before 1939 most of the capital for exploration had come from the floating of new ...
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
THE GOLDSEEKERS | 3 |
Pickpockets Gold | 5 |
Copyright | |
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