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Ballarat : the formative years / by A.W. Strange.
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Ballarat :: B & B Strange,
Year:
1982.
Description:
100 pages : illustrations, 1 folded map ; 22 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (page 92) and index.
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Monograph
ISBN:
0959680233 9780959680232;
Abstract:
Aborigines -- Early settlement -- Gold discovery -- The second rush -- The Eureka affair -- True site of stockade -- Ballarat -- gold rush canvas town -- The Welcome nuggett -- Ballarat consolidates -- Ballarat's richest mine -- Local government -- Charitable
institutions -- The stock exchange -- Quartz mining -- Quartz mines -- Gold statistics -- Mining the shareholders -- Working conditions of miners -- Gold stealing -- Railway to Ballarat -- Gold kind of Buninyong -- Ballarat statuary -- Medicine and undertakers -- Pioneer industry.

Gold mines and mining

A history of the formative years of Ballarat in the nineteenth century.
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