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Mining History Desk
Connects workings with towns, transport, labour and surviving documentary collections. New articles carry their real 2026 publication date; older dates belong only to the cited source material.
- Byline
- Mines & Quarries Mining History Desk
- Beat
- District histories · Government archives · Photograph provenance · Family records
- Dating policy
- New reporting uses its actual publication date. Historical dates refer only to cited source material.
Reports from this desk
33Mining History DeskBarkly: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskBowen Basin: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskCentral Australia: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskCentral Queensland gemfields: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskCentral west of NSW: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskCopper Coast and Mid North: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskEyre Peninsula: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskFar north of SA: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskFar west NSW: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskGalilee Basin: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskGascoyne: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskGippsland: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskGoldfields–Esperance region: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskHunter Valley: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskIllawarra: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskKimberley: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskLatrobe Valley: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskLightning Ridge: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskMid West: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskNew England district: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskNorth Queensland: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskNorth West Minerals Province: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskNorthern Tasmania: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskPilbara: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskSouth east of SA: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskSouth West: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskSurat Basin: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskTanami: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskTop End: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskVictorian goldfields: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskWest Coast of Tasmania: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskWestern Victoria: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskWheatbelt: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026