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Welcome to the Imperial Minerals Wiki This Wiki serves as the literary database for the Research Ireland-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. The Wiki is also editable but in order to edit pages you need to sign up for an account which you can do by clicking on the icon in the top right hand corner. Happy browsing!	'Scene in the Shifting House after the Recovery of the Bodies [from the Creswick Mining Disaster, 1882]'

Featured Publications
Gray Dawn Reef, The Golden Crown, The Investing in Uncle Ben's Legacy: A Tale of Mining and Matrimonial Speculations From Desk to Diggings, Or A Golden Christmas Knaves of Diamonds

Latest Publications
Number One North Rainbow The Burning Forest The Childerbridge Mystery Silken Cords and Iron Fetters Two Sides to Every Question

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