Author: VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Acts, Orders in Council, Notices and Mining Board Bye-laws
Author: VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Acts, Orders in Council, Notices and Mining Board Bye-laws, Relating to the Gold Fields
Author: Victoria. Department of MinesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Supplement to the Catalogue for the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Public Library of New South Wales. Reference DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney
Author: New South Wales. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Sludge
Author: Peter DaviesPublisher: Black Inc.
ISBN: 1743821093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush. Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: ‘sludge’. Sludge submerged Victoria’s best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. Mining effluent contaminated three-quarters of Victoria’s creeks and rivers. Sludge is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria’s mining history – the way it transformed the state’s water and land, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement. ‘Sludge is a fascinating, entangled story of human endeavour and environmental destruction. An exciting and timely reminder that history is a dirty business, precisely because it oozes its way into the present.’ —Clare Wright ‘Sludge, slurry, slickens or porridge: call it what you will, mining waste made a mess of Victoria’s environment. In Sludge, Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies carefully investigate this murky history of greed, mismanagement, reform and forgetting. It is a gripping account of an environmental catastrophe, and it vividly conveys the long-term costs of short-term gains.’—Billy Griffiths ‘This is the book about the goldfields I most wanted to read but didn’t think could be written. It’s a remarkable achievement.’—Tom Griffiths ‘If Victorians dreamed of glittering gold, what they got was a tidal wave of sludge that covered the land like a poisonous blanket and made the rivers run thick as gruel. Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies vividly recreate the forgotten landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, revealing how people and mining destroyed the country that nurtured them, and how that silent legacy is still with us today. Here is a powerful parable, a work of brilliant rediscovery and a wakeup call for our own times.’ —Grace Karskens
Public General Statutes (of Practical Utility) and the Rules, Regulations, By-Laws, &c
Author: VictoriaThe Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
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