Useful enough to keep open on site.
Plain-language guides for reading the register, briefing suppliers and preserving the records that never made it into a database.
How to read an Australian mine record
A field guide to status, commodities, coordinates and provenance — and the gaps a clean-looking dataset can still hide.
Operating, mothballed, developing or historical?
Four labels that look simple and carry very different meanings for researchers, suppliers and local communities.
A field guide to shortlisting mine-site suppliers
A practical brief for comparing capability, location, evidence and mobilisation before the quote request goes out.
The quarry supplier RFQ checklist
The information that helps a contractor price the work properly the first time — without burying the brief in procurement theatre.
How to preserve family mining records
A calm first-pass method for diaries, maps, assay books and photographs before anything is scanned, donated or discarded.
Where to research Australian mining history
A source-first route through national datasets, state geological portals, open-file reports and family collections.
15 documentary volumes from the research desk.
Longer source-led files on mining towns, maps, leases, photographs and family records—with a numbered evidence trail on every page.
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