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'Mt Isa's story is an Australian foundation epic. Only heroic struggle could have dug the mine and built the city a thousand kilometres from the nearest deepwater port, in a scorched red landscape sparsely dotted with spinifex and eucalypts. In Mines in the spinifex (1970), Geoffrey Blainey celebrates the fortitude of the prospectors and entrepreneurs who overcame these obstacles to found what he calls ‘the greatest Australian mine of the [twentieth] century’ (1970: 64).' (Publication abstract)
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- The Golconda Trilogy 1948 series - author novel
- The Channels 2001 single work novel
- Knock Ten : A Novel of Mining Life 1976 single work novel
- The Copper Crucible 1966 single work novel
- Blood Stains the Wattle 2002 single work novel
- Kangaroo Court 1979 single work novel
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