Journal of Australasian Mining History
Volume 3
September 2005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFEREED
DAVID BRANAGAN 1 – 16
Seeking Hidden Millions – Metallurgists and the Broken Hill Lode
PETA CHAPPELL 17 – 33
Tales of Merton’s Reward: the gold that Fred won
MEL DAVIES 34 – 57
Taking coals from Newcastle – smelting location and fuel costs at Kooringa, South Australia in
the 19th century
RUTH KERR, OAM 58 – 73
Ruffashell Street and the Tin Mill at Rocky Bluffs on the Stannary Hills Tramway, north Queensland,
1903 to 1920s
KEN McQUEEN 74 – 96
The Mount Boppy Gold Mine, NSW: A Leader in its Day and More to Come
DIANE MENGHETTI 97 – 114
Bowen Coke Works: State Enterprise or State Subsidy?
UNREFEREED
JIM ENEVER 115 – 137
Victoria’s other Eureka, The Conflict over Mining Leases on the Mount Alexander Goldfield
PHILIP HART 138 – 156
Self-Confidence, Self-Promotion, and Self-Delusion: A Case Study of a Saviour Who Failed
BRIAN R. HILL 157 – 170
Reefton’s Forgotten War Hero: Mining Engineer A. Winter Evans
R. KEITH JOHNS 171 – 184
Uranium in South Australia – Politics and Reality
JAMES A. LERK 185 – 192
Robert Gray Ford – A man before his time!
ELEANOR SWENT (Keynote address 11th AMHA Conference, Bendigo, 28 July 2005) 193 – 204
Yanks and Aussies: A Symbiosis. A Look at Some Illustrative Careers
ARCHIVE/SOURCE NOTES
ROBERT W.P. ASHLEY 205 – 211
Mining the Victoria Government Gazette
BOOK REVIEWS
LINDA RHODES, Two for the Price of One. The Lives of Mining Wives
Reviewer: Lenore Layman, Murdoch University 212-214
DAVID JOHNSON, The Geology of Australia
Reviewer: Ken McQueen, University of Canberra 214-216
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