Money Pits British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s

Money Pits  British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s
Author: John Woodland
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317094265

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Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ’gold bubble’. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Money Pits British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s

Money Pits  British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s
Author: John Woodland
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317094272

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Between 1849 and 1853 shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was actually raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ’gold bubble’. This book provides an overview of the entire bubble event, its antecedents and its outcomes. A number of researchers have investigated an earlier boom in the mid-1820s to reopen gold and silver mines in Latin America and several have studied individual company operations of that period. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies of the 1850s and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.

Money Pits British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s

Money Pits  British Mining Companies in the Californian and Australian Gold Rushes of the 1850s
Author: Dr John Woodland
Publsiher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-12-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781472442796

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Between 1849 and 1853, shares in nearly 120 public companies to exploit the booming goldfields of California and Australia were offered to the British public. The companies were collectively capitalised at over £15 million, but in the end only some £1.75 million was raised between 42 of them, with only one company surviving what the newspapers of the day described as a ‘gold bubble’. This is the first detailed investigation of the British gold bubble companies and their involvement in the almost simultaneous gold rushes on both sides of the Pacific.

A Global History of Gold Rushes

A Global History of Gold Rushes
Author: Benjamin Mountford,Stephen Tuffnell
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520967588

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Nothing set the world in motion like gold. Between the discovery of California placer gold in 1848 and the rush to Alaska fifty years later, the search for the precious yellow metal accelerated worldwide circulations of people, goods, capital, and technologies. A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these nineteenth century gold rushes from a global perspective. Gold was central to the growth of capitalism: it whetted the appetites of empire builders, mobilized the integration of global markets and economies, profoundly affected the environment, and transformed large-scale migration patterns. Together these essays tell the story of fifty years that changed the world.

Sludge

Sludge
Author: Peter Davies,Susan Lawrence
Publsiher: Black Inc.
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781743821091

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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

Untitled

Untitled
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9780520294554

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Gold

Gold
Author: Hordern House (Firm)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1990
Genre: Australia
ISBN: 0958847894

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Once Upon a Mine

Once Upon a Mine
Author: Wendy Martin,Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1983
Genre: Mineral industries
ISBN: MINN:31951000615142K

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