02219nam 2200421 450 991079375400332120200319125840.01-74382-109-3(CKB)4100000008869547(MiAaPQ)EBC5841707(EXLCZ)99410000000886954720190829d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSludge disaster on Victoria's goldfields. /Susan Lawrence & Peter DaviesCarlton, Victoria :La Trobe University Press,[2019]©20191 online resource (223 pages)Includes index.1-76064-110-3 Introduction -- 1. Sludge -- 2. Mining -- 3. Water -- 4. Fist fights and water rights -- 5. The sludge question -- 6. Turning the tide -- 7. Aftermath -- Conclusion.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 miningAustraliaVictoriaHistoryVictoriaHistory1834-1900Gold mines and miningHistory.741.994Lawrence Susan1528192Davies Peter1940-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910793754003321Sludge3771634UNINA