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Staking a Claim: Eight Mt Isa novels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2013

Cheryl Taylor
Cheryl Taylor*
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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).

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Queensland Review , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , June 2013 , pp. 96 - 109
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