Add to ORKGThis paper is based on an historical investigation into a township whose existence relied totally on the gold-mining industry and focuses on the decade 1861–1871. As a society we need to know more about the nature of daily life during the deep-lead mining phase, and the domestic and working lives of families on rich deep-lead Victorian goldfields in a time of intense social change. Piggoreet was a township within the Springdallah goldfields about which the only published history is a thirty-two page booklet written in 1926. Yet it had high-yielding mines which provided employment for its families, numerous enough to have more than three hundred children enrolled in the school at the end of the 1860s. After establishing the background to Pig...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2005 Dr. Ralph Winter BirrellFrom a small beginning at Ne...
In the goldfields of Victoria in the mid-1850s, the Melbourne Age commented that Māori ‘have worked ...
Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversify...
Although little material evidence survives other than mullock heaps and the occasional ruined buildi...
Until recently the focus of interest in gold mining history had been Victoria, and to a lesser exten...
© 1953 D. F. MackayThis thesis pretends to be nothing more than a case-history of a relatively minor...
© 1988 Matthew Spencer ChurchwardThis thesis is a study of how gold-mining contributed to the growth...
© 2007 Dr. Sara MartinThis thesis examines family and community experience on the central Victorian ...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
The story of Thames has been told and retold by many authors since the area was proclaimed a goldfie...
The Victorian gold rush began in 1851, resulting in massive demographic, land use, and social change...
Mount Shamrock township was one of the earliest gold mining towns in the Upper Burnett district of Q...
Hills dotted with adits and shafts, the moonscape of old sluice workings and the untidy piles of mul...
This thesis undertakes to examine the Historical Geography of the Collingwood Goldfield. This goldfi...
Paradise, a gold mining town in Queensland, Australia, was occupied only briefly towards the end of ...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2005 Dr. Ralph Winter BirrellFrom a small beginning at Ne...
In the goldfields of Victoria in the mid-1850s, the Melbourne Age commented that Māori ‘have worked ...
Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversify...
Although little material evidence survives other than mullock heaps and the occasional ruined buildi...
Until recently the focus of interest in gold mining history had been Victoria, and to a lesser exten...
© 1953 D. F. MackayThis thesis pretends to be nothing more than a case-history of a relatively minor...
© 1988 Matthew Spencer ChurchwardThis thesis is a study of how gold-mining contributed to the growth...
© 2007 Dr. Sara MartinThis thesis examines family and community experience on the central Victorian ...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
The story of Thames has been told and retold by many authors since the area was proclaimed a goldfie...
The Victorian gold rush began in 1851, resulting in massive demographic, land use, and social change...
Mount Shamrock township was one of the earliest gold mining towns in the Upper Burnett district of Q...
Hills dotted with adits and shafts, the moonscape of old sluice workings and the untidy piles of mul...
This thesis undertakes to examine the Historical Geography of the Collingwood Goldfield. This goldfi...
Paradise, a gold mining town in Queensland, Australia, was occupied only briefly towards the end of ...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2005 Dr. Ralph Winter BirrellFrom a small beginning at Ne...
In the goldfields of Victoria in the mid-1850s, the Melbourne Age commented that Māori ‘have worked ...
Consolidated Gold Fields was a major British mining house founded by Cecil Rhodes in 1892. Diversify...