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Boorowa mineral boom

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Frogmore Copper Mine near Burrowa, Illustrated Sydney News , 1878. 1. Introduction Boorowa is a town on the southwestern tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, in a region located east of Young and southwest of Goulburn, with Yass to the south. Primarily known for farming (wheat and canola) and grazing (cattle and sheep), its historical association with the industrial extraction of metals and minerals is little appreciated. The following provides an outline of some of the mining and refining which has taken place over the years since the early gold rushes of the 1850s and over a century through to the 1960s. The following metals and minerals were successfully mined in the area: Gold 1851+ Silver 1859+ Copper 1859+ Lead 1859+  ----------------  2. Chronology The following information is substantially taken from chapter 12 of Helen V. Lloyd's Boorowa (1990, 247-53).  1851 * 1851 - Gold discovered at Tuena, northeast of Frogmore.  1852 * June, 1852 - small amounts o...
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Selected Works (bepress) - Michael Organ

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The following is a screen dump taken on 31 December 2024 of Michael Organ's Selected Works profile from the bepress University of Wollongong Research Online system. This profile was subsequently deleted by bepress, though the content remained in the RO system until it also was discontinued around June 2025. NB: The DOWNLOAD links do not work. Michael Organ.   Follow   Contact Selected Works of   Michael Organ Retired Michael Organ (b.1956) retired in 2020. Prior to this he was Manager - Repository Services, University Library, University of Wollongong and former University Archivist. He completed an honours degree in geology at the University of Wollongong in 1985 and a postgraduate Diploma in Archives Administration at UNSW in 1986. Michael was appointed Archivist at the University of Wollongong in 1995. Between 2002-2004 he was the Australian Greens Federal Member for Cunningham. Michael's research interests are in the area of film studies, archival and library sc...
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