"Let's take you to Big Al's hole," she said, leading us to a mountain left bare by miners.

Along the way, Bob encounters many objects left behind by past miners.

He describes Knockentiber as being a row of old houses occupied by miners.

The tax resistance by foreign miners was successful.

They had joined the strike by black miners on Wednesday.

At that time, Consolidation's mines were described as being "worked almost entirely by colored miners."

A large force of police and soldiers assaulted a stockade set up by miners.

This was a year of intense political agitation by miners on the Victorian goldfields.

So the recent strike by black miners against the gold and diamond industries is reported almost as a routine labor story.

At one time during the late 1980s and 1990s there were labor actions in the area by miners who had not been paid for a year.