Life on the Australian goldfields

by Derrick I. Stone, Sue MacKinnon

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Great photos from the period from the late 1850s to the 1930s, with explanations, in the introductory chapter on mining technology (pp. 20-81). Valuable for the kind of detail that is extremely rare in American books on mining history!

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Genres: Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS: 994.03 — History & geography Oceania & Polar Regions Australia Period of development of self government, 1851-1901
LCC: TN428 .A1 .S76 — Technology Mining engineering. Metallurgy Mining engineering. Metallurgy Ore deposits and mining of particular metals

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