Investing in Uncle Ben's Legacy: A Tale of Mining and Matrimonial Speculations

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Form	Serialised fiction
Genre	Romance
Extract Regime	Copper
Extractive Stage	Exploration
Labour	Financial speculation
Infrastructure	[[:Category:\|]]
Colonies represented	New South Wales
Colony Pub	New South Wales
Location	Sydney
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Author	"Old Boomerang' (John Richard Houlding) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/houlding-john-richard-3804"
Author Gender	Male
Date	02/10/1875
Publication	The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

Notes

Initially serialised in the Sydney Mail in 1875, the novel was published by George Robertson in 1876 and is a hilarious account of the speculative activities surrounding mining with the focus on the disastrous floating and proliferation of numerous mining companies.

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