Great Gold Renaissance, The. (The Untold Story of the Modern Australian Gold Boom 1982-2002)

MINING Australiana –

• xiv, 282 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. #250825

• Setting the scene
• The fixed price of gold
• The gold price floats free
• The modern CIP process
• Gold production
• Australia’s earliest CIP plants
• More early CIP plants
• The investment climate
• Exploration developments
• Mining developments
• Plant design & construction developments
• Gold sales developments
• Finance & tax developments
• Industrial impacts
• Safety & environment
• The early producers
• The large companies
• The Aussie battlers
• Consolidation of the golden mile
• The rise of Normandy
• Epilogue.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography.

Subject:

• Gold mines and mining — Technological innovations — Australia
• Australia — Commerce
• Australia — Economic conditions — 1965-