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The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Gold-Sulphide Ore
This particular specimen was recovered from two hundred feet down in the Golden Mile in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The Golden Mile, named after the estimated sixty million ounces of gold worth around one hundred billion dollars, was the birthplace of the largest gold rush in Australia almost one hundred and thirty years ago when William Brookman and Samuel Pearce leased the Great Boulder mine. The Golden Mile is also the home of the Super Pit, Australia's most well-known mine.The majority of gold deposits will form as a native metal, however, on occasion, it can form a compound with another element, in this case, sulphur. Therefore, this specimen is a rare example of gold naturally forming into a compound mineral with sulphur. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.A small gold-sulphide ore mineral specimen in shades of silver and grey with flecks of gold. Precious metals are often found in Sulphide Ores, as sulphides usually bind to these metals. They are also extremely symmetrical in crystaline form. Gold-Sulphide Ore occurs when gold forms a natural compound with other elements. In this form, gold can be present in one of two ways. It can be fully immersed in the sulphide, or a portion may be partially free. This specimen has minimal gold visible, with only a few flecks being partially visible.burke museum, beechworth, indigo shire, beechworth museum, geological, geological specimen, mineralogy, gold-sulphide ore -
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum
Geological specimen - Copper ore
The Empress of the Sea was a magnificent three masted, square rigged, wooden sailing clipper ship built in Boston, USA. The Empress of the Sea is historically and archaeologically significant as it was one of Donald Mackay's famous wooden clipper ships, i.e. representative of a particular design or type. It was also associated with both the Black Ball and White Star Lines of Australian Packets, which carried thousands of immigrants from Britain to Australia. The Empress of the Sea caught fire at Queenscliff at 4 am on 19 December 1861. When the officer of the watch attempted to extinguish the fire they found fire pump handles missing and buckets ineffective. Fire became out of control and the ship was sailed from anchorage and ran ashore at Point Nepean. Ship rolled over onto starboard side by force of the tide and the shifting ballast. The port side was burnt to the copper. The Empress of the Sea lies in 5 metres (16 feet) to 7 metres (23 feet) of water, 700 metres (2,297 feet) offshore from Nepean Bay, Port Phillip. The site covers an area 150 metres (492 feet) long and 50 metres (164 feet) wide. The bow lies towards the south-west. Piece of copper ore, possibly part of ships cargo, recovered from the site of the Empress of the Sea shipwrecked in Nepean Bay 1861shipwrecks, nepean bay, empress of the sea -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Crosby Lockwood and Son, The Metallurgy of Gold, 1896, 1896
M. Eissler A.I.M.E. was a member of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.Red Hardcovered book of 678 pages with around 250 illustrations and numerous folding plates. Contents include: gold mining in California, Gold as a metal; Hydraulic Process; treatment of Gold bearing Ores; Crushing and Amalgamation (Queensland, California); Mills; Buddle; concentrator; Roasting ores; Roasting Pyritic Ores; Hydro-Metallurgy; Chlorination; Electro-Metallurgy; Cyanide; Erection of a Cyanide Plant; Chemistry of the Cyanide Process; Spelting, CupulationCrushing ore; 160 stamp battery; Mill site and battery; causes of failure in gold mining, South African Gold Fields; Gold in Australia (pg 589) Advertisements include: Fraser & Chalmers; Bowes scott & Western Ltd; Fried. Krupp Grusonwerk; Stanley; Humbolt Engineering Works Co., Townson & Mercer.gold, mining, metallurgy, pyrites, cupel, brook, rand, california, america, gold mining -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - UNKNOWN MINING PHOTOS - UNDERGROUND MINERS
Two photocopies of photos of men working underground in a mine. Each photo has two men in it. In one photo, the men are shovelling ore.photo, unknown mining photos, underground miners -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - DOLLY POT
Iron dolly pot. Cylindrical shape, open at top. Used with a pestle for hand crushing gold bearing ore. No pestle with dolly pot. -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Map, Stawell Gold Mine, SGM Mineralized System Longitudinal Projection showing Diamond Drilling Holes 2007, June 2007
Section of Big Hill showing Diamond Drill holes through Magdala, Magdala North and Golden Gift Ore bodies to 2000m levelLegend of Mine workings numbered. 1980's mining, gold, map -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Photograph, 1957
Black and white photograph showing drilling rig and stach of drill pipe used to drill for iron ore near Nowa Nowa Victoriafundraising -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - AUSTIN COLLECTION: TWO MEN INSPECTING ORE SAMPLE IN TRUCK,CENTRAL DEBORAH MINE, BENDIGO
Black and white photo John Jones LHS and Ray Beer wearing hard hats and lanterns inspecting ore in a skip.at Central Deborah Mine.Bendigomining, business, central deborah gold mine -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.
Document, Julia Marion Harvey Hale, 1907 - 1964
Biography of the life of Julia Hale, Victoria's most prominent woman sawmiller who from 1941 lived at Buckanbe, 32 Orion Road, Vermont.hale, julia, orion road, vermont no. 32, kirkpatrick, alfred, buckanbe park, evans, peter s. -
Lara RSL Sub Branch
Book, Jungle Warfare - With the Australian Army in the South West Pacific, 1944
This is the fourth book in this series to the people at home during WWII. Stories of military operations in the jungle and Kenai, mountains and swamps of New Guinea. There the terrain and climate gave to the fighting a character of its own, unlike anything experienced by Australians previously and never to be forgotten by those who took part in it.Jungle Warfare - With the Australian Army in the South West Pacific. Brown front and back cover with Ore text and picture of soldier carrying his webbing. Same text on the spine. The inside front and back cover has text ore coloured text on a brown background. Photographs, illustrations, poems, stories, paintings. This book has a paper jacket cover - slightly torn. jungle warfare, new guinea, australian army, royal australian navy, united nations, amphibious operation, hidden battlefields, shaggy ridge, operational drop, life-saving moresby style, stretcher bearing -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CENTRAL NELL GWYNNE BLUEPRINT
Blueprint drawing of Central Nell Gwynne front of ore bins & centre uprights by T J Jorgensen & Son Engineers. J J Stanistreet Manager.T J Jorgensen & Sonmine, gold, central nell gwynne -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: NEW MONUMENT GMC N/L - ORE TREATMENT, March 1935
Document. Brown book bound with pins. 22 pages of information about extracting gold with 9 blue flow sheets. Ore Treatment at Monument Hill.McColl, Rankin & Stanistreetorganization, business, new monument gmc n/l, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet, new monument gmc, monument hill consolidated gold mine, gold mining, ore treatment -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Book, Warwick Finlay, The Doctor, The Captain, The Poet and Others, 2004
This book was printed to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the survey, naming of the town and sale of land at Murchison.Black and white cover featuring the Goulburn River and portraits of Doctor McMillan, Captain John Murchison and Orion Horne over and early plan of Murchison Townshipmurchison -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - RAAF Lockheed P-3C Orion Ground Support Facilities, RAAF Specification Engineering CMI Ground Support Facilities for P-3C Orion Aircraft
Lockheed Orion -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Rhodonite with Galena and Sphalerite
This specimen is from Broken Hill, NSW. Galena is a natural mineral form of lead sulphide and is often found associated with sphalerite, calcite, and fluorite. Galena is an important lead ore mineral, and, in some regions, it is also an important mineral associated with silver ore. Sphalerite is a sulphide mineral that is the main ore of zinc. Rhodonite is an uncommon mineral once used as an ore of manganese in India, however today the scarcity and fragility of the crystals mean it is primarily used as lapidary materials or mineral specimens. In 1883, Charles Rasp who was a boundary rider at the time, discovered what he thought were deposits of tin but were in fact samples of silver and lead. He and six others went on to set up the first mining company in Broken Hill (BHP). The ore body became the largest and richest of its kind in the world mining ore worth more than 42,000 pounds in its first year. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study. Galena contains lead and silver, Sphalerite contains zinc. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.A hand-sized piece of Sphalerite and Galena with Rhodonite crystalsburke museum, beechworth, geological, geological specimen, galena, rhodonite, sphalerite, silver ore, manganese, lead sulphide, lead ore, zinc ore, lapidary, mineral specimen, broken hill, nsw -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - RAAF Lockheed P-3C Orion Engineering Specifications, RAAF Specification Engineering AC184 P-3C Orion
Lockheed Orion Aircraft -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - RAAF Lockheed P-3C Orion Integration and Training, RAAF Specification Engineering Integration and Training Facility for P-3C Orion CMI Facility
Lockheed Orion Aircraft -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - (SP) AAP 7215.004-2-5-13 Lockheed P-3C Orion Magnetic Tape Transport RD 319A/AYA=8
Lockheed Orion Aircraft -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Manual (item) - (SP) AAP 7215.001-6-15 Lockheed P-3B/P-3C Orion Flight Test Schedule
Lockheed Orion Aircraft -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Slide - ALBERT RICHARDSON COLLECTION: SPECIMEN HILL, EAGLEHAWK
Slide. Specimen Hill, Eaglehawk, west of Sailor's Gully Road. Image taken about 1906. Poppet head, chimney stack, mullock heaps, ore bins.No. 22 on bottom of slidemine, gold, specimen hill (eaglehawk )., bendigo mines-jack hattam collection -
Clunes Museum
Booklet - CATALOGUE, HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, 1920
GREEN COVERED CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTIONS IN THE SCIENCE MUSEUM SOUTH KENSINGTON WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. MINING AND ORE-DRESSING. CLUNES IS REFERENCED ON PAGES 60 AND 72.IN PENCIL ON TITLE PAGE A$21.41 south kensington, science museum -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Digital Image, Mystery mine photographs: Steam plant for crusher, 1935c
Steam plant for ore crusher,.An interesting collection of photographs, the connection to Greensborough remains a mystery. Digital copy of 2 black and white photographs, two of 30 photos of mining operations.Photos have no markings or dates. Donor unknown.tasmania, mines and mining, mining machinery -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - NEW CHUM & VICTORIA LINES OF REEF - NEW CHUM & VICTORIA MINE MANAGER'S REPORT
Handwritten notes on New Chum & Victoria formed 1870. Mentions machinery, working depth and levels. Number of men employed, loads of ore, amount of gold, profit and dividendsdocument, gold, new chum & victoria lines of reef, new chum & victoria lines of reef, new chum & victoria mine manager's report, new chum & victoria tribute -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - MINE WINDER HOUSE
Black and white photograph. Mine winder house, poppet head, ore bins, chimney and shed. Residences adjacent to mine and streets. Poppet heads visible in far background. surface equipment, surface site, bendigo, mines and mining, mine, mining, poppet head, transport, dray, mining landscape, landscape -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Equipment - MODEL OF MINING CAGE
A lot of safety cages were developed in 1800s. Grippers on the cages acted to prevent the cages from "free fall" when the cables broke.Model of mining cage, metal construction, with safety cage in working order with ore truck. Made by Benedict Branch, won a medal at the Juvenile Tasmanian Industrial Exhibition (1883)bendigo, gold mining, mining cage model -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: MAPS AND SECTIONS KALGOORLIE, 1929
Document: MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET: green cover book Bulletin 94, Maps and Sections to accompany report on the geology and ore deposits of the Boulder Belt, Kalgoorlie. Plages IV - XV11.Government printer, Perthorganization, business, kalgoorlie, mccoll, rankin and stanistreet, kalgoorlie, maps and sections -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Magdala Cum Moonlight Gold Mining company and Workers c1890
Magdala cum Moonlight Mine. Group of mine workers c1890 against the background of the mine. The wooden ramp built on trestles was used by horse drawn drays to deliver the Quartz for treatment in the cyanide vats.Dark photo of mine workers lined up in front of ore ramp. Horses and drays would go up the ramp to dump the crushed sand into the cyanide vats. Building is on right."Elite" Studio Co. Melbournestawell gold mining -
Federation University Historical Collection
Correspondence, W.L.B. Ballieu, W.L.B. Ballieu & Co to Ballarat School of Mines, 12/05/1898
The Ballarat School of Mines offered assaying of ore. Handwritten letter on W.L.B. Ballieu & Co letterhead. Handrwritten: "12 May 1898 The Director School of Mines Ballarat Dear Sir Please let me know the cost of treating 12 parcels left by Mr Harvey. Yours truly W.L. Baillieu" "Replied to 13/5/98" Written and circled in red ink "278"ballarat school of mines, ballieu, w.l. b. ballieu, auctioneer, sworn valuator, assay, letterhead -
Waverley RSL Sub Branch
Plaque H.M.A.S. Orian, H.M.A.S. Orian
HMAS Orion (S 71) was an Oberon class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). One of six submarines ordered by the RAN during the 1960s, Orion, named after the constellation in a break from ship-naming tradition, was built in Scotland and commissioned in 1977. Orion was decommissioned in 1996, marked for disposal in 2003, and broken up for scrap in 2006. Several sections of the submarine remain intact as memorials and museum piecesWooden Plaque 15cm x 13cm with insignia of H.M.A.S. Orian H.M.A.S. Orian -
Glen Eira Historical Society
Ephemera - Orion Estate
One item about this estate: 1/A black-and-white estate agents notice for the sale of Orion Estate at 3-o-clock on the Saturday 5th December 1880s. This notice details the sale of Orion Estate by public auction into allotments.orion estate, elsternwick, mars street, jupiter street, venus street, saturn street, kooyong street, mercury street, rosstown junction railway, real estate agents, railway stations, lillie and davis, auctions, ormond station, hobsons bay, elsternwick station, glenhuntly road, brighton line, madden walter, tunen august, building surveyors, residential development, plans, houses