MINING

AS NEW COPY! The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia’s mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on its attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics.

• Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2003
• 431, [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. #091124
• Previous ed.: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1993.
• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p. 396-411.
• Mines and mineral resources — Australia — History
• Mineral industries — Australia — History
• This classic history of Australian mining now appears in its fifth edition, updated to bring the story up to the twenty-first century.

  Forget about Ned Kelly and the bushrangers: for my money if you want a really romantic and exciting saga of Australia, take a look at our mining history. It’s a turbulent, dramatic story with enough material for a bookshelf full of best-sellers … a saga of tough men, iron-nerved gamblers, violence, death and glittering riches set against the backdrop of some of the most awful country on earth. And never has the story been better told than by Geoffrey Blainey.—Trevor Sykes Australia is one of the world’s great sources of mineral treasure. 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 bearing evocative names like Rum Jungle, Noble’s Nob, Broad Arrow and Siberia, and stories abound of fortunes won and lost. The Rush That Never Ended tells the story of these mineral discoveries,…