LEADER 02219nam 2200421 450 001 9910817285903321 005 20200319125840.0 010 $a1-74382-109-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000008869547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5841707 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008869547 100 $a20190829d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSludge $edisaster on Victoria's goldfields. /$fSusan Lawrence & Peter Davies 210 1$aCarlton, Victoria :$cLa Trobe University Press,$d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (223 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-76064-110-3 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Sludge -- 2. Mining -- 3. Water -- 4. Fist fights and water rights -- 5. The sludge question -- 6. Turning the tide -- 7. Aftermath -- Conclusion. 330 $aEveryone 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. 606 $aGold mines and mining$zAustralia$zVictoria$xHistory 607 $aVictoria$xHistory$y1834-1900 615 0$aGold mines and mining$xHistory. 676 $a741.994 700 $aLawrence$b Susan$01528192 702 $aDavies$b Peter$f1940- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817285903321 996 $aSludge$94066535 997 $aUNINA