Journal of Australasian Mining History
Volume 13
October 2015
TABLE OF CONTENTS
COLLIN MYERS 1-10
‘The Challenge of Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’
Keynote Address to the 10th Congress of the International Mining History Association and the 20th
Annual Conference of the Australasian Mining History Association, Charters Towers, July 2014.
REFEREED
PETER BELL 11-22
Discovering Gold in the North: the evidence changes
FRED CAHIR & IAN CLARK 23-41
‘Jon and Jackey’: An Exploration of Aboriginal and Chinese People’s Associations on the Victoria Goldfields
JIM ENEVER 42-61
‘The Rush that Ended’: The Quest for Rubies in Central Australia
PETER S. EVANS 62-78
The Wolfram Mine at Wilks Creek, Victoria
PHILIP HART 79-101
Benjamin John Dunsheath and his Auckland Smelting Company
NIC HAYGARTH 102-110
‘The Broken Hill of Tasmania’: the rise and fall of the 13-Mile silver-lead field, western Tasmania
SYBIL NOLAN 111-126
Robert Menzies: miners and the metals market crash of 1930
ROBERT W. VERNON 127-143
John Taylor and Sons, Mine Promoters and Managers: Seventy Years of Mining in Spain and Portugal
UNREFEREED
ROSS A. BOTH & WARREN FAHEY 144- 159
Songs from the Australian Goldfields, Part 1: Gold mania
JIM MORRISON & IAN HODKINSON 160-175
Don Johnson’s Charters Towers Mining History: The Importance of Historical Data
KEITH PRESTON 176-197
The Magnet Mine 1894-1940: ‘careful management – constant production’
WILLIAM WALKER 198-222
The Genesis of Heavy Haul Freight Railroads in the Pilbara
BOOK REVIEWS
John Woodland, Money Pits: British mining companies in the Californian and Australian gold rushes of the 1850s 223-226
Reviewer: K.G. McQueen
Garry Richardson, Tin Mountain: the European and Chinese History of the Blue Tier, Poimena and
Weldborough 226-227
Reviewer: Nic Haygarth
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