Download or read book Gold written by Iain McCalman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting. In this book, a team of prominent historians and curators have collaborated to produce an innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society.
Download or read book The Gold Rush written by David Hill and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hill relates the extraordinary people and staggering events of Australia's great gold-rush years. From the mid- to late-1800s, people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life, including two future prime ministers of Great Britain and Australia, threw off their previous pursuits and made the often perilous journey to the goldfields, from where they would return either fabulously wealthy or demoralised and broken - if they returned at all.
Download or read book Consolidated Gold Fields in Australia written by Robert Porter and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversifying from its South African gold interests, the company invested widely during the following century. This included investments in the Western Australian gold sector from the 1920s and exploration and mining activities elsewhere in Australia and the Territory of New Guinea. In the 1960s, Consolidated Gold Fields Australia (CGFA) was formed. CGFA had ambitious plans and the financial backing from London to establish itself as one of the main diversified mining companies in Australia. Investments were held in the historic Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, in Renison, and it was one of the first groups to develop iron ore deposits in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It also acquired a major interest in mineral sands. While the London-based Consolidated Gold Fields ceased to exist in 1989, taken over and dismembered by renowned corporate raider Hanson Plc, its Australian subsidiary, renamed Renison Goldfields Consolidated (RGC), continued for another nine years as a diversified mining group before it suffered its own corporate demise, facilitated by Hanson. CGFA and RGC were important participants in Australia’s post–World War II mining sector. This book is a history of a once great British mining-finance house and its investments in Australia. Consolidated Gold Fields had a rich and broad history in Australia; its ultimate fate did not demonstrate its potential as an Australian mining company.
Download or read book Gold in Australia written by George Moore and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with the geological aspects of gold and its importance to ancient civilisations because of its unique properties. It continues in sequence, finally leading to the technological advances used to mine gold in a modern world which, while showing a great deal more concern for the environment, still values this most precious of metals.
Download or read book Gold Prospecting in Western Australia written by Rob Kanen and published by Minserve (Mineral Services). This book was released on 2004 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in gold in W.A. increased following the 1849 California and 1850's Victorian rushes. A rich find made by Arthur Bayley and William Ford during 1892, in Coolgardie, inspired a small rush. A large amount of gold (over 500 oz) was initially found on Bayley's Reward lease above a quartz reef. Within a month, 3000 oz had been found by 400 prospectors. Soon after, in June 1893, Patrick Hannan, Tom Flanagan and Daniel O'Shea discovered a rich deposit of gold at Mt. Charlotte, Kalgoorlie. This initiated a rush resulting in the discovery of the Kalgoorlie-Boulder "Golden Mile." From here, gold exploration spread throughout the state. The introduction of ground cancelling metal detectors to Australia in 1974 created renewed interest in prospecting that, together with the high price of gold, led to the prospecting boom of the late 1970's and early 80's. The largest nugget ever found in W.A. is the Golden Eagle by Larcombe at Larkinville in 1932. It weighed 1135 oz. Alluvial and reef gold occurs in the Yilgarn, Pilbara and Kimberley districts. Approximately 95% of the states gold production has come from the Yilgarn district, exceeding the Pilbara and Kimberley by far.
Download or read book The Gold Colonies of Australia and Gold Seeker s Manual written by George Butler Earp and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Young America and Australian Gold written by Eli Daniel Potts and published by St. Lucia, Q. : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gold Australia written by Tony Crago and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Australia, part of the Australian History series, offers solid grounding on the topic for students ages 12+.
Download or read book A Lady s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852 53 written by Ellen Clacy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1853 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Colonies of Australia Comprising Their History Territorial Divisions Produce and Capabilities how to Get to the Gold Mines and Every Advice to Emigrants written by George Butler Earp and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold fields of Australia written by Karl Schmeisser and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Gold Gold written by Bruce Moore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moore's underlying argument is that the gold rushes played a significant role in the development of Australian English.
Download or read book Metal Detecting for Gold in Australia written by Douglas M. Stone and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metal Detecting for Gold in Australia has over 150 maps and descriptions covering Australia's major gold nugget producing fields. This hardback has 400 colour pages jampacked with prospecting tips, the latest metal detectors and photographs showing the various gold environments throughout Australia.
Download or read book Australia 1872 written by Christoph Hein and published by Emons Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - How a lump of gold went down in photographic history- Previously unpublished UNESCO World Heritage-listed photos- More than 150 impressive photosBernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold in the world. Holtermann shared his newfound wealth with his adopted home. As he traveled through the settlements, he had the poverty-stricken life documented in spectacular images, and promoted Australia to the world. More than 150 of these impressive photos have now been published, most for the first time, in this bilingual edition and are thus immortalized for eternity. Over more than 200 pages, the spectacular story of the German emigrant and his lucky discovery is told, with the images commissioned by him now available for the general public. Holtermann's photos impressively document the drudgery of the gold mines and life in Australia during the 19th century. Several modern-day photos and representations of how contemporary artists interpret his work have been included in this coffee-table volume. Thanks to this book, Bernhard Holtermann's legacy has been given the distinction it deserves for the first time. Text in English and German.
Download or read book The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town written by Robert Llewellyn Tyler and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book’s focus is the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book provides an analysis of a Welsh community as it existed in a particular area and the ways in which it changed during a specific period of time and considers all aspects of the Welsh immigrant experience.
Download or read book The Gold Colonies of Australia Comprising Their History Etc Notices of the Gold Mines and Every Advice to Emigrants With a Map Enlarged Edition written by George Butler EARP and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
