Guide to the Western Mining Corporation Online History Collection, c.1976-2016

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Summary

Collection number:
MS 10353
Creator:
Western Mining Company [now defunct]
Extent:
0.405 Gigabytes and 419 PDF documents
Language:
English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Western Mining Corporation Online History Collection, National Library of Australia, MS 10353, [series/file/item number(s)]'.
Availability:
Not for loan
Access conditions:
Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

This collection of documents was brought together in support of the story told in the published history of Western Mining Corporation (WMC), Mandarins and Mavericks: remembering Western Mining 1933-2005, by Martin Summons, published by Hardie Grant Books in 2017.

The collation of documents, prepared by past employees of WMC is not in itself comprehensive but rather an additional resource to the published history. The electronic files contained in the collection are PDF conversions of a mixture of born-digital content (such as written documents prepared on computer) and digitised hard copy material (for example scanned historical photographs).

The date range attributed to the collection is for the original coverage, rather than the date of PDF conversion. Some dates are unknown.

Custodial History:
A committee of former Western Mining Company (WMC) employees commissioned a history of WMC. The committee brought together a range of archival source material, in digital format, from a range of sources. The first document within the collection (1.01) documents the coverage of the project and attributes authorship where known.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:
Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7419932).
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Western Mining Corporation Online History Collection, National Library of Australia, MS 10353, [series/file/item number(s)]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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