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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... ounces and was sold to a Dunolly bank for the princely sum of £ 9,436 . Named the Welcome Stranger , it was prob- ably the largest recorded nugget in the world . The Welcome Stranger had been preceded by the Welcome Nugget , a dazzling ...
... ounces and was sold to a Dunolly bank for the princely sum of £ 9,436 . Named the Welcome Stranger , it was prob- ably the largest recorded nugget in the world . The Welcome Stranger had been preceded by the Welcome Nugget , a dazzling ...
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... ounces , and Archie Clive's ' Bobby Dazzler ' nugget of 487 ounces found in 1899 . Kimberley was powerless to hold its dusty men . It had inspired the legends , Russian Jack and the Ragged Thirteen , and men who were to be revered ...
... ounces , and Archie Clive's ' Bobby Dazzler ' nugget of 487 ounces found in 1899 . Kimberley was powerless to hold its dusty men . It had inspired the legends , Russian Jack and the Ragged Thirteen , and men who were to be revered ...
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... ounces from the reef . Next day he broke with a hammer another three hundred ounces . The newcomers took several hundred ounces for themselves before Bayley warned them to leave his claim . Bayley now had to register his claim with the ...
... ounces from the reef . Next day he broke with a hammer another three hundred ounces . The newcomers took several hundred ounces for themselves before Bayley warned them to leave his claim . Bayley now had to register his claim with the ...
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
THE GOLDSEEKERS | 3 |
Pickpockets Gold | 5 |
Copyright | |
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