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This Wiki serves as the literary database for the Irish Research Council-funded Minerals project. Texts are categorised according to their mineral, infrastructure and labour regimes as well as their form and genre and the extractive stages they represent. You can browse the Wiki through these categories below.

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Caption'Scene in the Shifting House after the Recovery of the Bodies [from the Creswick Mining Disaster, 1882]'


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