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[https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6wSODwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT11&dq=history+of+mining&ots=hNvKnMD1N_&sig=FzCQdj6xlIq2Eu0lBzyZGSh-3wU&redir_esc=y by Geoffrey Blainey 2013 Google] | [https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6wSODwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT11&dq=history+of+mining&ots=hNvKnMD1N_&sig=FzCQdj6xlIq2Eu0lBzyZGSh-3wU&redir_esc=y by Geoffrey Blainey 2013 Google] | ||
Forget about Ned Kelly and the bushrangers: for my money if you want a really romantic and exciting saga of Australia, take a look at our mining history. It's a turbulent, dramatic story with enough material for a bookshelf full of best-sellers ... a saga of tough men, iron-nerved gamblers, violence, death and glittering riches set against the backdrop of some of the most awful country on earth. And never has the story been better told than by Geoffrey Blainey.—Trevor Sykes | Forget about Ned Kelly and the bushrangers: for my money if you want a really romantic and exciting saga of Australia, take a look at our mining history. It's a turbulent, dramatic story with enough material for a bookshelf full of best-sellers ... a saga of tough men, iron-nerved gamblers, violence, death and glittering riches set against the backdrop of some of the most awful country on earth. And never has the story been better told than by Geoffrey Blainey.—Trevor Sykes | ||
=====An Overview of the Mining History and Geology of Butte, Montana===== | |||
[https://www.proquest.com/openview/386c890f1045573ee769b630ba86605f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=54494 by Gammons, Christopher H 6/06 ProQuest] | |||
The Butte mining district – formerly known as the | |||
“Richest Hill on Earth” – is now more notorious for | |||
its environmental problems, the legacy of 140 years | |||
of mining, milling, and smelting on Butte Hill (Dobb | |||
1996; Langewiesche 2001) | |||
