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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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. The causes of the mining revival puzzled thoughtful men of those days and historians of ours . The first cause was obvious - new mining fields . More than half of the wealth mined in 1900 ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. The causes of the mining revival puzzled thoughtful men of those days and historians of ours . The first cause was obvious - new mining fields . More than half of the wealth mined in 1900 ...
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... mines from the 1880s ? It was attracted less by new fields than by changes in the money market . Before 1880 Australian mining investors rarely bought shares in mines outside their own district or colony . In the 1880s the scope for ...
... mines from the 1880s ? It was attracted less by new fields than by changes in the money market . Before 1880 Australian mining investors rarely bought shares in mines outside their own district or colony . In the 1880s the scope for ...
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A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. for all suffering from dust on the lungs . Other copper and lead fields from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Southern Ocean shuddered during slumps in metal prices . The decade 1911 to 1920 ...
A History of Australian Mining Geoffrey Blainey. for all suffering from dust on the lungs . Other copper and lead fields from the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Southern Ocean shuddered during slumps in metal prices . The decade 1911 to 1920 ...
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
THE GOLDSEEKERS | 3 |
Pickpockets Gold | 5 |
Copyright | |
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