Australia's Earliest Mining Era South Australia 1841-1851 by Ian Auhl, Denis Marfleet
SKU: B-000714

Australia's Earliest Mining Era South Australia 1841-1851

Authors: Ian Auhl , Denis Marfleet
Special Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Condition: In good condition. Light scuffing/wear to the dust jacket. The cover has minor shelving wear. Clean and tidy pages. No writing. No dog ears. Tight binding. From a smoke free home.

Art, Design & Photography History Australiana

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Australia's Earliest Mining Era: South Australia 1841-1851 by Ian Auhl and Denis Marfleet uncovers the forgotten rush that preceded the gold boom. This 1975 Rigby hardcover charts copper and lead finds from the Barossa to Burra, showing how mines shaped colonial politics and Aboriginal country.

Scores of period maps, survey sketches and paintings illustrate the shafts, smelters and tent camps that briefly made South Australia the continent’s mineral powerhouse. The pictorial format invites both young adults and seasoned collectors to pore over every detail without dense academic prose.

The dust-jacketed volume presents well for its age: light jacket scuffing and minor shelf wear to boards, pages clean, binding tight, no inscriptions or smoke odour. A solid antiquarian piece for devotees of Australian mining history and art.

Add this vintage illustrated history to your shelf and explore the decade when picks, shares and copper ingots first fired the South Australian economy.

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