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Bibliography
This is a selection of the resources held at Lithgow Regional Library and Bathurst City Library. The selection indicates works of both a specific and general nature. There are also photographs, vertical files and maps held by the Libraries for research purposes.
Coal
Allen M, 
  The western industrial district 1972
   LR 338.099445 ALL 
Armstrong, Gary,The 
  archaeology of coal mining: site formation processes affecting coal mining sites 
  in the Lithgow Valley, a case study 1991
  LR 609 ARM 
Australian Coal & Shale 
  Employees Federation, Miners Federation of Australia: 
  50th anniversary [1965]
  LR 331.8812233 MIN 
Blanchard, Bill Just 
  as the sun went down 1993
  LR 622.334 BLA 
Brown, Jim W, Bent 
  backs: an illustrated social and technological history of the Western Coalfields 
  [1989]
  LR 994.45
Carne, JE, 
  Geology and mineral resources of the Western Coalfield 1908
  LR 559.44 CAR 
Casey Jim, Class identity in periods of industrial conflict: a study of the 1949 coal strike in Lithgow 1994
Clements, Helen, The 
  1949 general coal strike 1976
  LR 994.05 CLE 
Cremin, Aedeen, Survey 
  of historical sites Lithgow area: report on a survey prepared for the Heritage 
  Council of New South Wales by the University of Sydney 1981 
  1987
  LR 994.45 UNI 
Downey,RW, 
  Lithgow as an industrial centre: history of industry in Lithgow [ 
  n.d.]
  LR 338.099445 DOW 
Genders, Basil, 
  Coal mines in the Western Field [1992]
  LR 622.334 GEN 
Pratten, Christopher, Lithgow 
  State Coal Mine: conservation plan 1994
  LR 385.50659445 PRA 
Gold
 Baker, Robert, 
  Historic Sofala : a goldfield that changed a nation: 1951 -1943, 
  1985 
   LH 994.45 BAKE 
 Baker, Robert, The second 
  rush : a study of the goldrush to Sofala in 1851, 1986 
  
   LH 994.45 BAKE
 Bartlett, Robert, First gold, 
  1999 
  LH 994 BART
 Burke, Keast, Gold and silver, 
  1973
   LH 779 BURK
 Cook, Kerrin, The glint of 
  gold : a history and tourist guide of the goldfields of the central west of 
  New South Wales, 1999 
  LHQ 994.45 COOK,
  
   Coupe, Robert, Australia's 
  gold rushes, 2000 
   LH 994.031 COUP
 Drinkwater, M., The German-Australian 
  called Holtermann, 1985 
  LH 994.45 HOL
Drinkwater. M., Hill End gold, 
  1982 
   LHQ 994.4 DRI
 Friend, Donald, A collection 
  of Hillendiana : comprising vast numbers of facts & a considerable amount 
  of fiction concerning the goldfield of Hill End and environs, 1956 
  
   LH 994.45 FRIE
 Goodwin, Bruce, Gold and 
  people: recollections of Hill End 1920s to 1960s, 1992
   LH 995.45 GOOD
Higgins, Matthew, Gold & 
  water : a history of Sofala and the Turon Goldfield, 1990
   LH 994.45 HIGG
Hodge, Brian, Frontiers of 
  Gold, 1979 
   LH 994.45 HODG
Hodge, Brian, Sunset of gold, 
  1998
   LHQ 994.45 HODG
Hodge, Brian, Touring Hill 
  End, 1988
   LH 994.45 HODG
 Hodge, Brian, Valleys of 
  gold, 1976 
  LH 994.45 HODG
Hodge, Harry, The Hill End 
  story. Book 1: A history of the Hill End - Tambaroora gold field, 1964 
   
  LH 994.45 HODG
 Hodge, Harry, The Hill End 
  story. Book 2, 1965
   LH 994.45 HODG
Hodge, Harry, The Hill End 
  story, Book 3 : memories and vignettes, 1975 
   LH 994.45 HODG
Jones, Leo J., The Gulgong 
  goldfield, 1940 
   LH 622.342 JONE
 Morrison, M., Mountains of 
  Gold : fine gold mining at Junction Reefs, 1990
   LH 622.342 MORR
Schaule, Gunter, Holtermann's 
  nugget, 2000
  LS 823.4 SCHA