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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
44Mining History DeskBarkly: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskBendigo’s thirteen gold-discovery claimants: the unresolved recordPublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskBowen Basin: mining and quarrying field guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskBuninyong and Ballarat’s first gold: the Hiscock, Dunlop and Regan timelinePublished 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 DeskCouncil records for mining and quarry history: the Victorian research guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskEast Gippsland mining and quarry records: a council source auditPublished 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 DeskFrom family box to evidence pack: a mining-record contributor 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 DeskGlenelg limestone and quarry history: the council source auditPublished 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 DeskMildura’s limestone quarries and local records: a source auditPublished 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 DeskWarrandyte’s first goldfield and licences: the Louis Michel record guidePublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskWellington Shire mining and quarry archives: the working source 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 2026Mining History DeskWho found gold at Clunes? Campbell, Bruhn and Esmond in one evidence ledgerPublished 24 Aug 2026Mining History DeskWho found gold first in Victoria? A guide to the competing colonial recordsPublished 24 Aug 2026