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Author(s) -

Cheryl Taylor

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

queensland review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116

H-Index - 4

eISSN - 2049-7792

pISSN - 1321-8166

DOI - 10.1017/qre.2013.8

Subject(s) - epic , foundation (evidence) , port (circuit theory) , archaeology , project commissioning , publishing , history , geography , media studies , engineering , political science , art , law , sociology , literature , electrical engineering

Mt Isa's story is an Australian foundation epic. Only heroic struggle could have dug the mine and built the city a thousand kilometres from the nearest deepwater port, in a scorched red landscape sparsely dotted with spinifex and eucalypts. In Mines in the spinifex (1970), Geoffrey Blainey celebrates the fortitude of the prospectors and entrepreneurs who overcame these obstacles to found what he calls 'the greatest Australian mine of the [twentieth] century' (1970: 64).Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social SciencesFull Tex

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