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dc.contributor.authorO'Donohue, Peteren
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-27T12:46:00Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.citationGolden Words and A Golden Landscape, p. 139-147en
dc.identifier.isbn9781921597206en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7791-
dc.description.abstractNearly thirty years ago I was living on a rural property to the north west of Armidale and studying some archaeology subjects as part of my undergraduate degree. The owner of the property knew of my course of study and suggested I might be interested in taking a look at what he described as "a Chinese aqueduct built to take water to the Rocky River goldfield". That visit to the site of a water race remained in my memory and ultimately resulted in the writing of a Master's thesis in archaeology that required me to explore the role of Chinese miners on the Rocky River goldfield. The general background to the history and geology of the field is covered elsewhere in this volume; this article will fill in some of the detail of the Chinese contribution to the working of the field between 1856 and the early 1900s based largely on contemporary newspaper reports from the 'Armidale Express' which began publication in 1856, the same year that Chinese began arriving on the goldfield in significant numbers that made them stand out as a separate ethnic contingent distinguished from the largely European mining community by their language, dress, habits, food, appearance and work practises. Rocky River was from 1852 until 1856 an alluvial field of only limited productivity and the Rocky River had been worked for some fifteen miles of its length from above the junction with the Kentucky Creek down to its junction with the Bundarra River. During these years the population and fortunes of the Rocky River fluctuated as the miners moved up and down the watercourse working the riverbed, water-holes and banks for the recent (in geological terms) alluvials using picks, shovels, barrows, carts, dishes and cradles. The field, after four years, still possessed many of the attributes or a 'poor man's digging's' and had been receiving adequate water during much of that time. The discovery of gold at Mount Jones in 1856, however, substantially altered the nature of the field and it underwent a rapid but short-lived growth in both productivity and population.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherUniversity of New England, Arts New Englanden
dc.relation.ispartofGolden Words and A Golden Landscapeen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleMining the Rocky River: Some Aspects of On-going Research on 19th Century Mining Hydrology and the Chinese Presence on the Rocky River Goldfielden
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsLanguage, Communication and Cultureen
dc.subject.keywordsPostcolonial Studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsAustralian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)en
local.contributor.firstnamePeteren
local.subject.for2008200211 Postcolonial Studiesen
local.subject.for2008209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.for2008210303 Australian History (excl Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)en
local.subject.seo2008950201 Communication Across Languages and Cultureen
local.subject.seo2008970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen
local.subject.seo2008950503 Understanding Australias Pasten
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086516809en
local.profile.schoolOffice of Faculty of HASS and Educationen
local.profile.emailpodonohu@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20110131-164939en
local.publisher.placeArmidale, Australiaen
local.identifier.totalchapters10en
local.format.startpage139en
local.format.endpage147en
local.title.subtitleSome Aspects of On-going Research on 19th Century Mining Hydrology and the Chinese Presence on the Rocky River Goldfielden
local.contributor.lastnameO'Donohueen
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleMining the Rocky Riveren
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36733980en
local.search.authorO'Donohue, Peteren
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local.year.published2010en
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