$7.50 ea
 

$49.-

 Rocks and Landscapes of the Chillagoe District
 by W.F. Willmott and D.L. Tresize  32 Pages

 Rocks and Landscapes of the Townsville District
 by D.L. Tresize and P.J. Stephenson  60 Pages

Brief  geological guide books explaining in layman's terms the geological
features,   rocks and landscapes of Cairns, Chillagoe and Townsville.

North Queensland Deserted Towns
by Colin Hooper Hard cover - 48 pages

First of a new series covering Cooktown and the Palmer river region. Subjects include the Chinese, Byerstown, Degarra, Evandale, Gregory, Groganville, Maytown and many more.

• This little booklet called "The Map Reading Guide" for $3.00 has to be the best value ever.
   
• How to use Topographic Maps, using GPS and magnetic compass.
   
• Romer Scale

New expanded edition!

This is a wonderful written book about the early settlement history of North Queensland. There are great stories of places and characters that populated the early day landscape. The hardships of mining and exploration endured, are still visible today in the remains of ghost towns. This book is full of useful historical information including copies of early town survey maps. It shows how important tin and gold mining was to the eventual establishment of our larger coastal townships. It could be said that that we owe our existence to these early day pioneers. Read more at www.desertedtownsatoz.com

THE SMALL MINER AND NATIVE TITLE
Paperback 408 pages
by Ralph de Lacy

The grant of almost all mining tenure Australia wide was 'frozen' on 23rd December 1996 after the Wik High Court decision and remains 'frozen' to this day. This Government action completely caught out the traditional small miners. This is the story of one of those small miners. What started out as an attempt to get his application for mining lease granted by the Queensland State Government, turned into an attempt to get all small mining tenure granted by developing a number of Indigenous Land Use Agreements that covered all Aboriginal concerns and all types of Mining Tenure within the vast North Queensland Land council Aboriginal Corporation area. This attempt over a five and a half year period was constantly thwarted by the continuous manipulations of a number of key players, and an unworkable Act of Parliament.

REVIEWS
An excellent read. I couldn't put it down. Ralph's table cloth analogy is the best description of NT I have ever read. It is unbelievable how closely the battle in NQ is mirrored by APLA's in WA." - Bill O'Donnell, Vice President/Native Title Facilitator, Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia

"A story of betrayal, extortion, hypocrisy and apathy, but also of persistence, goodwill and faith and common sense." Ian Frazer, 'Townsville Bulletin'

'This is a fascinating account of a period of Australia's history which many of us have filed into the history files - unaware that this 1993 Act still has huge repercussions today.' - Wendy O'Hanlon,  Australian Provincial Newspapers

Comprehensive and detailed guide to Cape York. Includes natural and historical information with many maps and detailed trek notes. Also covers fishing, canoeing and national parks.
A must for those going to the Cape.

A classic book that has started many a fossicker and prospector on a journey of adventure

'The gold rush at Palmer River, on Cape York, lasted about seven years in the 1870's but with 35,000 diggers it was the country's wildest while it lasted. Holthouse has researched the story of those days well to make a lively and a very readable book.
 

Australian book covering all the basics of gold panning with many coloured illustrations on the how and the where.
This is one of the best books of this type I have seen.
Highly recommended.

Also available in this series:

A Manual for the Novice Gold Prospector
Gold Detecting for Novices
Gold Detecting for the More Serious
The Innovative Prospector - Ideas

Go to Likely Prospects for more details

Useful guide to the new Minelab Quattro, contains 13 chapters from an explanation of Full Band Spectrum technology, Beach hunting, relic hunting, maintenance and many more handy hints.

American handy beginners book with many pen drawings and step by step instructions on on gold panning. There are some do it yourself projects on building a simple sluice with many helpful hints.

"A typical American mining camp in an Australian setting, was this Wolfram Camp - busy days, wild nights, hard work and easy spending, but no two-gun bandits, no stage coach hold-ups. There never was, there never could be another township such as Wolfram Camp..."

Hugh A. Borland - April 26, 1939

Sam Elliot learnt his mining trade in the rugged mountains of north-eastern New south Wales. He also learnt to live alone and to survive where others would die. In 1937, he saddled his two faithful horses and rode for eighteen months until he reached Cooktown in Far North Queensland. When Sam found the Palmer River in 1939 he made it his home. For the next half century he found adventure, mystery, the remains of a bygone era and gold!
This is Sam Elliotts story.
 

GOLD the Noble Mineral Softcover 112 pages
extra Lapis English No. 5

Ideal book for the gold nugget enthusiast with many stunning high quality colour photographs.

Subjects include What is Gold?, Evaluating & Testing, Crystals & Nuggets, Mining & Deposits, Electronic Gold Rush, Mineralogy of Gold, North Carolina & Georgia, California & Canada, Australia & Colorado, British Gold Rush.