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Sludge : disaster on Victorias goldfields

Author :  Susan Lawrence & Peter Davies

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Country
Australia
Publisher
La Trobe University Press
ISBN 9781760641108
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2019
Bib. Info 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps and portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm
Categories DU - Oceania (South Seas)
Product Weight 500 gms.
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Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: 'sludge'. Sludge submerged Victoria's best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. This book is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria's mining history - the way it transformed the state's water and land, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement. Gold mines and mining -- Victoria -- History. | Gold mines and mining -- Environmental aspects. | Victoria -- History -- 1834-1900. | Australian

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