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Written by Lenore Layman, Murdoch University
Mining in Australia is a non-traditional industry for women. This has been so in all sectors of the industry, whether the minerals being mined occur as 'solids such as coal and ores, liquids such as crude petroleum, or gases such as natural gas' (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006); whether mining occurred in hard rock for metals (such as gold, iron, nickel, silver, lead, zinc, copper, tin or uranium) or gems (such as diamonds or opals) or in soft rock for such minerals as coal or salt, oil or natural gas. Mining operations, which include underground and open cut workings, strip mining (for example, for bauxite), quarrying, in situ leaching and dredging, the operation of oil and gas …show more content…

In over a century dominated by underground mining, all colonial/state jurisdictions barred women from employment below ground in any mine. Female pit labour was not introduced into the Australian colonies, as it was a declining practice in Britain by the early 19th century and legally prohibited there in 1842 (John, chaps 1 & 2). Above ground in Australia, women's exclusion was almost as complete. In surface treatment plants and workshops, protective legislation combined with work custom, enforced by mostly unionised- often militant- male work forces, prevented the employment of females. At Glen Osmond, the first of the Cornish-dominated mines in South Australia, small numbers of bal-maidens were employed briefly in the 1840s but this traditional Cornish practice quickly ended and 'picky boys' replaced the women. Australia's 'Little Cornwall' did not employ females on surface mine work (Payton, chap 5). Subsequently, only Aboriginal women worked in any numbers on surface work such as tin or gold panning and opal fossicking; they did so within family groups outside the formal confines of the …show more content…

Women were, however, blocked from any opportunities to progress to positions of leadership in company administration although, if they did not marry, they could become invaluable office managers, as did Miss Beryl Jacka at the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) (Fairweather,

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