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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... walked a shepherd boy named Chapman with some 38 ounces of gold that he had found on Glen- mona station near the present town of Amherst , a hundred miles north - west of Melbourne . Not the first man to find gold in those ranges , he ...
... walked a shepherd boy named Chapman with some 38 ounces of gold that he had found on Glen- mona station near the present town of Amherst , a hundred miles north - west of Melbourne . Not the first man to find gold in those ranges , he ...
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... walked with dignity to the cage and went into the darkness with a candle stuck by wet clay to the front of the hat . After in- specting the workings they came up at 2 p.m. and bathed , cleaning their finger nails with sharpened match ...
... walked with dignity to the cage and went into the darkness with a candle stuck by wet clay to the front of the hat . After in- specting the workings they came up at 2 p.m. and bathed , cleaning their finger nails with sharpened match ...
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... walked across the banded iron formation as it crossed the waves of rocky hills . To speed the work a helicopter carried the searchers to the top of the ranges . They then walked downhill , testing the bands of iron as they went , and ...
... walked across the banded iron formation as it crossed the waves of rocky hills . To speed the work a helicopter carried the searchers to the top of the ranges . They then walked downhill , testing the bands of iron as they went , and ...
Contents
Preface Introduction | 1 |
THE GOLDSEEKERS | 3 |
Pickpockets Gold | 5 |
Copyright | |
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