In 1983 ANU PhD student Derek Froude found 4.1 billion year old zircons at Mount Narryer, WA, using SHRIMP. He checked twice before telling anyone.

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.