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- ↑ Young, Don, 'Vale Richard Gordon Hartley, 30th June 1939 - 5th May 2016', Engineering Heritage Australia Magazine, vol. 2, no. 3, 2016, pp. 18-9.
- ↑ Hartley, Richard G; Murdoch University. School of Social Sciences (1992), The 1904 watershed in Bewick Moreing's Western Australian gold mining activities , retrieved 3 December 2018
- ↑ Hartley, Richard G; Murdoch University. Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education (1998), A history of technological change in Kalgoorlie gold metallurgy 1895-1915 , retrieved 3 December 2018
- ↑ Hartley, Richard G (2007), River of steel : a history of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply 1895-2003, Access Press, ISBN 978-0-86445-196-5
- ↑ Oliver, Bobbie (1 November 2008), "Richard G. Hartley, River of Steel: A History of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply.(Book review)", Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (95): 263(3), ISSN 0023-6942