Location: Building 210:104, Bentley Campus, Curtin University of Technology

A Mining History and Mining Studies Conference will be held at the Bentley Campus of Curtin University of Technology on 25 September 2000. It is sponsored by the Division of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology.

Keynote Address: Mr Justice Robert French, (Judge of the Australian Federal Court and former President of the National Native Title Tribunal) will speak on the topic of "Native Title and Mining"

Titles of other papers:

"Guilty or not guilty? The case against Claude Albo de Bernales and his Commonwealth Group of Mining Companies in the 1930 and 40s"

"Making a business of mining, manufacturing and marketing asbestos in Australia: 1880s - 1990s"

"The gold mining industry and the origin of arbitration in Western Australia"

"Contracting work at Mt Lyell, 1919-1925"

"Dealing with recession: gold mining in Kalgoorlie in the 1920s"

"Mining heritage in Western Australia"