Journal of Australasian Mining History
Volume 2
September 2004
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFEREED
CLIVE BEAUCHAMP 1 – 16
The Anatomy of a Strike: Wentworth Proprietary Co. Ltd, Orange, New South Wales 1897
RALPH W. BIRRELL 17 – 34
The Extraction of Gold by Amalgamation and Chlorination
PHILIP HART 35 – 53
Australian Capital in New Zealand: The Te Aroha Silver and Gold Mining Company
RUTH KERR, OAM 54 – 74
John Moffat – the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd, and Establishment of the Chillagoe Smelters,
Queensland
SANDRA KIPPEN and YOLANDE COLLINS 75 – 89
Radical Reformers: The Role of Medical Men in Improving Working Conditions in the Bendigo
Goldmines, 1890-1910
RONALD H. LIMBAUGH 90 – 114
‘There is a game against us’: W.J. Loring’s Troubled Years as Bewick-Moreing Company’s
General Manager and Partner in Western Australia, 1905-1912
IAN PHIMISTER 115 – 130
Coal Mining and its Recent Pasts in Comparative Perspective
UNREFEREED
JIM ENEVER and ROD DOYLE 131 – 158
The Thick and Thin of Australian Coal Mining: A Comparative Mining History of the
South Maitland and Powlett River Areas
BRIAN R. HILL 159 – 169
Explaining the Reefton Paradox
TIMOTHY G. JONES 170 – 185
Adam Johns: prospector, Miner & Explorer of the Northern Territory 1840-1896
GERARD MACGILL 1 86 – 197
The King Battery and Mr Lidgey’s Grand Vision for the Hampton Plains
GILBERT M. RALPH, MBE 198 – 221
The Broken Hill – Collins House Connection: Mining Personalities
NICOLA WILLIAMS 222 – 230
Brass among the Gold
BOOK REVIEWS
NIC HAYGARTH, Baron Bischoff: Philosopher Smith and the Birth of Tasmanian Mining.
Reviewer: PETER BELL 231-23
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