Author: Simpson Davison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781629493121
Category : Geology, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 845

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Author: Simpson Davison
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Malcolm Drinkwater
Publisher: Australia : s.n.
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Robert Porter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781760463496
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversifying from its South African gold interests, the company invested widely during the following century. This included investments in the Western Australian gold sector from the 1920s and exploration and mining activities elsewhere in Australia and the Territory of New Guinea. In the 1960s, Consolidated Gold Fields Australia (CGFA) was formed. CGFA had ambitious plans and the financial backing from London to establish itself as one of the main diversified mining companies in Australia. Investments were held in the historic Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, in Renison, and it was one of the first groups to develop iron ore deposits in the Pilbara of Western Australia. It also acquired a major interest in mineral sands. While the London-based Consolidated Gold Fields ceased to exist in 1989, taken over and dismembered by renowned corporate raider Hanson Plc, its Australian subsidiary, renamed Renison Goldfields Consolidated (RGC), continued for another nine years as a diversified mining group before it suffered its own corporate demise, facilitated by Hanson. CGFA and RGC were important participants in Australia¿s post¿World War?II mining sector. This book is a history of a once great British mining-finance house and its investments in Australia. Consolidated Gold Fields had a rich and broad history in Australia; its ultimate fate did not demonstrate its potential as an Australian mining company.

Author: Simpson Davison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: Douglas M. Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959639261
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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Metal Detecting for Gold in Australia has over 150 maps and descriptions covering Australia's major gold nugget producing fields. This hardback has 400 colour pages jampacked with prospecting tips, the latest metal detectors and photographs showing the various gold environments throughout Australia.

Author: G. Neil Phillips
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781876118136
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: R. Brough Smyth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 384605139X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Author: Hank Nelson
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1921934344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining on their own account. Others met them with hostility, either by direct confrontation or by stealthy ambush. Many of the indigenous people and some miners were killed. The miners were dependent on the local people for labourers, guides, producers of food and women. Some women lived willingly in the miners’ camps, a few were legally married, and some were raped. Working conditions for Papua New Guineans on the claims were mixed; some being well treated by the miners, others being poorly housed and fed, ill-treated, and subject to devastating epidemics. Conditions were rough, not only for them but for the diggers too. This book, republished in its original format, shows the differences in the experience of various Papua New Guinean communities which encountered the miners and tries to explain these differences. It is a graphic description of what happens when people from vastly different cultures meet. The author has drawn on documentary sources and interviews with the local people to produce, for the first time, a lively history.