The Mines of South Australia, Including Also an Account of the Smelting Works in that Colony : Together with a Brief Description of the Country, and Incidents of Travel in the Bush

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The British journalist and mining expert John Baptist Austin (1827–96), who had moved to Adelaide as a young man, was fascinated by the gold rush in Victoria. This 1863 publication comprises a detailed account of South Australia's mining industry in the mid-nineteenth century.