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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... holes , but these signs of violence were only one side of the page , the side the news- papers liked to print . The goldfields ' chief commissioner noted on 1 October 1852 that the crime rate was no higher on the diggings than in the ...
... holes , but these signs of violence were only one side of the page , the side the news- papers liked to print . The goldfields ' chief commissioner noted on 1 October 1852 that the crime rate was no higher on the diggings than in the ...
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... holes deep enough to ram in the explosive that shattered the rock . By the 1870s Bendigo miners were fracturing the rock more easily by using , instead of black blasting powder , the dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel . At the same time ...
... holes deep enough to ram in the explosive that shattered the rock . By the 1870s Bendigo miners were fracturing the rock more easily by using , instead of black blasting powder , the dynamite invented by Alfred Nobel . At the same time ...
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... holes found copper , poor but plentiful . New holes were drilled deeper . From the depth of half a mile the drillers hauled up a core of rock rich in copper . Another deep hole penetrated even richer copper for a dis- tance of five ...
... holes found copper , poor but plentiful . New holes were drilled deeper . From the depth of half a mile the drillers hauled up a core of rock rich in copper . Another deep hole penetrated even richer copper for a dis- tance of five ...
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
THE GOLDSEEKERS | 3 |
Pickpockets Gold | 5 |
Copyright | |
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