In 1957 geologist Roy Woodall read a 1954 government bulletin on Darling Range bauxite. Within six years WA had a bauxite mine and an alumina refinery.

Paddy Hannan, Tom Flanagan and Dan Shea found gold near Mount Charlotte in June 1893. The Kalgoorlie gold rush, told in Hannan's 1898 words.

How the Olympic Dam team, Ewen Tyler at Argyle, Mark Creasy and Rudy Gomez at Carrapateena kept exploring for years before anyone believed them.