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Rapid Opening of gold fields
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13 steam engines in Ballarat
mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines -
Scott Clow and Prebble opened the first cast-iron foundry in Melbourne
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135 steam engines in ballarat
mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines -
Enoch Hughes established a rolling mill in melbourne
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342 steam engines is ballarat
mainly used to pump out water from the gold mines -
ballarat had ten foundires
eight for mining equipment and two for producing and repairing farming equipment -
Period: to
a severe recession in australia slowed down industrialisation