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Since September 2003 the AMHA has published the Journal of Australasian Mining History which embraces all aspects of mining history, mining archaeology and heritage.
The 2012 AMHA Journal includes:
Ross A Both: Gilles v. the Glen Osmond Union Mining Company: Anatomy of a lease dispute.
David Branagan: The Open-Cut Era (Late 1940s - Mid 1960s) in the Western Coalfield of New South Wales: Including some autobiographical memories.
Lloyd Carpenter: Defining a Date and Place in the Otago Gold Rush: The Bendigo Problematic Journal of George Magnus Hassing and Bendigo.
Jim Enever: The Buchan Proprietary Company: A Victorian Mining Swindle.
Nic Haygarth: An ‘Island’ Within an Island: the Maritime/Riverine Culture of Tasmania’s Pieman River Goldfield.
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Lenore Layman: Mine Fumings and Miners’ Ill Health, 1880s-1910s: The Hazard of Nitroglycerine Fumes.
Ken McQueen: Early Developments in Treating Pyritic and Refractory Gold Ores in Australia.
Clive Beauchamp: Disaster at the Hoskins’ Ironstone Quarry, Cadia, Orange 1921.
Philip Hart: The New Zealand Exploration Company and Aroha Gold Mines.
Bill O’Neil: The BHP Lock-Out of 1909: The View from Three Generations of Broken Hill Miners.
Keith Preston: Anchor Tin Mine, Tasmania: a century of struggle for profitability.
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The Australasian Mining History Association accepts articles that relate to various aspects of mining history in the Australasian area, including New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. All submissions should be accompanied by an abstract that does not exceed 250 words and that includes brief details on the background of the author(s).
The author(s) should state when sending their paper whether it should be placed in the refereed or the un-refereed section. The journal also accepts books for review.
It is expected that before submitting a paper, the author(s) should follow the instructions contained in the journal style sheet that include footnoting procedures, length of article, font, spacing, etc.
Papers should be sent by email or on a disc to:
Mel Davies EditorJournal of Australasian Mining History
Economics, Business School M 251
University of Western Australia
Crawley Western Australia 6009