Enables collectors to identify a wide range of specimens. 

A dictionary of colourful goldfields language

Douglas M Stone

Our goldfields once attracted adventurers from all over the world. Huge finds made some men rich, while others left destitute.

Recent finds show that good gold deposits still remain and this book describes how to prospect correctly, and where to find and recover gold. Descriptions of all major reef and alluvial fields are accompanied by over 30 maps.

192 pages

Memories and reminiscences of the goldfields of Western Australia in the 1890s.

Facsimile edition of the 1912 booklet Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria. Number 12. List of nuggets found in Victoria. 70pp.

Sam J Cash

An Australian prospecting icon. The author discovered over 100 gold mines, large and small, using the techniques described in this book. Much more remains to be found by prospectors, both amatuer and professional.

This book is the fabled 'map' to your own gold mine. 76 pages

An insight into the hardiness and humour the early prospectors dealt with the tough new goldfields of the great 1890s goldrushes in Western Australia

North Queensland's Mining Heritage Trails

This guide takes the day tripper on informative tours extending from the 1870s gold rushes, through the tin and copper booms of the late 19th century to uranium mining in the 1950s. 52pp

Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the mud of winter and dust of summer, the pluckiness of the women and children, the grog shanties, the flies, the mania of mining, the despair and the delirium, and the much hated licensing system which was to culminate in the Eureka Stockade.