Journal of Australasian Mining History
Volume 7
September 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFEREED
DAVID BRANAGAN 1 – 16
Australia’s First Marble Quarry.
JIM ENEVER 17 – 38
‘The Politics of Oil Shale’ The Tasmanian Oil Shale Industry from 1910 to 1935.
TIM JETSON 39 – 59
‘That some rich lode amongst these hills is waiting for us yet’: Balancing Mining and Environmental
Concerns in the Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania.
JAMES LERK and SANDRA KIPPEN 60 – 73
Suicide on the Bendigo Goldfields 1860-1880.
KEN MCQUEEN 74 – 99
Quidong Mineral Field, NSW: An intriguing discovery of W.B. Clarke.
ANTHONY E. WEBSTER 100 – 116
The Hart’s Shaft Cornish Plunger Pumps: Historical Archaeology in an Operating Underground
Gold Mine.
UNREFEREED
CLIVE BEAUCHAMP 117 – 137
Beyond Philanthropy: The New South Wales Miners’ Accident Relief Act 1900.
PHILIP HART 138 – 154
A Carter, a Businessman, and a Prospector with Several Things in Common.
BRIAN R. HILL 155 – 168
Exciting career of an obscure mining entrepreneur: David Ziman (1862-1920).
ARCHIVAL NOTES
ALAN MURRAY 169 – 174
‘Dead Men Talking’ – Oral History in the Making.
BOOK REVIEWS
Raymond E. Dumett, Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945: Entrepreneurship,
High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion, Ashgate, Farnham, UK, 2009.
Reviewer: Kenneth E. Jackson, University of Auckland 175 – 176
Geoffrey Russell, Water for Gold! The fight to quench Central Victoria’s Goldfields, Australian
Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2009.
Reviewer: Lori Sciusco, HCPL, Heritage + Archaeology 177 – 179
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