Journal of Australasian Mining History
Volume 8
September 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFEREED
PETER BELL and JUSTIN McCARTHY 1 – 22
The Evolution of Early Copper Smelting Technology in Australia (Part I)
GEOFFREY BLAINEY 22 – 35
A brief history of BHP Billiton
MEL DAVIES 36 – 62
Financing the Burra Burra Mines, South Australia: Liquidity Problems and Resolutions
JIM ENEVER 63 – 87
‘Mining for Oil in Victoria’: The Lakes Entrance Oil Shaft
KEN McQUEEN and ROBERT BARNES 88 – 105
The Maitland Bar Nugget: A Key Link to the Gold Rush Heritage of New South Wales
UNREFEREED
CLIVE BEAUCHAMP 106 – 118
Double Disaster: Lithgow Valley Colliery, New South Wales, 1886
PHILIP HART 119 – 132
Joseph Harris Smallman: A prospector who became a Pakeha Maori
BRIAN R. HILL 133 – 147
New Zealand’s 1896 Mining Boom
KEITH PRESTON 148 – 171
Mount Bischoff Tin Mines: Pioneers of Water power in the Tasmanian mining industry
TONY WESTON 172 – 183
Mining Lower Grade Ore: Changes in Mining Technology at Mt Lyell, Tasmania, 1927-1939
BOOK REVIEWS
Paul Robert Adams, The Best Hated Man in Australia: The Life and Death of Percy Brookfield
1875-1921, Puncher and Wattman Biography, Glebe, 2010. 184-186
Reviewer: Alan Murray
John Hillman, The International Tin Cartel, Routlege, London and New York, 2010. 186 – 188
Reviewer: Gordon Boyce, The University of Newcastle, Australia
R. Keith Johns, A mirage in the desert? The discovery, evaluation and development of the
Olympic Dam ore body at Roxby Downs, South Australia, 1975-88, O’Neil Historical & Editorial
Services, Adelaide 2010. 188-190
Reviewer: Barry Cooper, University of South Australia
Philip J. Pells and Philip J. Hammon (Written & compiled by), with contributions from
Amanda Mackie, Karen Carlson and Brian Fox, ‘The Burning Mists of Time’: A Technological
and Social History of Mining at Katoomba, WriteLight, Blackheath, NSW, 2009, 190-193
Reviewer: David Branagan, University of New South Wales
Michael Waterhouse: Not a Poor Man’s Field: The New Guinea Goldfields to 1942 –
An Australian Colonial History, Halstead Press, Braddon, ACT, 2010. 194-196
Reviewer: Mel Davies, University of Western Australia
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