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Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Kaolin Mining -- mining a fine white clay used for crockery in Stone Street Stawell 1914
Kaolin Mining (a fine white clay used for crockery) Stone Street Stawell 1914Group of men and women inspecting horse driven puddling machine.stawell -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Agreement Rules & Regulations of the metropolitan Gold Mining Company, Little Bendigo, 1898-1899
A mining compny in Ballarat.Printed book of rules, regulations and shareholders.edward daniel, t. byrne, register-general's office, w.m. acheson, john heinz, metropolitan gold mining company, henry donald mckee, maxwell bruce, henry stone, wiliam cleverdon, h.p. smith, h. poppeus, f.c.k. lewin, share scrip, little bendigo, ballarat, mining -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Char-A-Banc belonging to Withers Bus Tours with a group of people in front of Sloane's & Scotchman Mining Co's Poppet Head c 1920
Char-A-Banc belonging to Withers Bus Tours later Pioneer Tours and group of people in front of Sloane's & Scotchman Mining Co Poppet Head upper Main Street Stawell. Withers Tours, later named Pioneer Tours ran regular tourist buses from Melbourne to Stawell and Halls Gap area in a successful business. They later expanded to Sydney and other interstate destinations. Founder was W.A. Withers born at Moyston and became a successful businessman in Melbourne.Early 1920's open bus with a group or people (tourists) in front of Poppet Head and shaft of Sloane & Scotchmans Mine.mining, transport, tourism -
Federation University Historical Collection
Booklet, Wreford & Co, Outline of the Constitution of the School of Mines for the Colony of Victoria at Ballarat, 1870 (exact)
The Ballarat School of Mines was established in 1870 after a resolution from the Ballarat Mining Board. It is the first School of Mines in Australia. The first three trustees were Redmond Barry, Rivett Henry Bland, and Somerville Learmonth, with Redmond Barry being the first President. .1) Yellow soft covered booklet of 4 pages. The contents include an outline and rules of the proposed Ballarat School of Mines, Resolutions of the Mining Board at Ballarat, and a draft constitution. .2) Ballarat School of Mines Constitution handwritten rough notes .3) Ballarat School of Mines Constitution handwritten rough notes .4) Ballarat School of Mines handwritten draft Constitutionballarat school of mines, smb, redmond barry, ballarat mining board, ballarat school of mines establishment, legal, constitution, rivett henry bland, somerville learmonth, john alexander mcpherson, james mcculloch, mccoy, harrie wood -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Image, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and Suite, in Mining Costume, 10/12/1867
Black and white image of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and Suite, in Mining Costume after descending the Band of Hope Gold Mine, Ballarat. ballarat, band and albion gold mine, mining, duke of edinburgh, royal visit, lord newry, elliott yorke, manners sutton, verdon, baker, haig, rothwell, canpbell, o.w. brierly, paget, redan, royalty -
Federation University Historical Collection
Plan, Raywood Gold Mining Lease Blocks, c1986
Raywood is in the State of Victoria.Gold mining lease blocks at Raywood. Thought to be from The Gold-Fields of Victoria Reports of The Mining Registrars for the Quarter Ended 30th June 1886raywood, raywood botanical gardens, pound, raywood state school, buxton, new buxton, new perserverance, pioneer, new nil, south pioneer and may reef, london -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Photograph, Article on The Ringwood Antimony Mines (in) The Mining Chronicle, 23rd September 1882
Catalogue card reads, "Article on The Ringwood Antimony Mines (in) The Mining Chronicle, 23rd September 1882". -
Clunes Museum
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH YANKEE QUARTZ MINE, C. NETTLETON, PHOTOGRAPHR, MELBOURNE, CIRCA 1865
.1 SEPIA PHOTOGRAPH OF YANKEE MINING CO., CLUNES. .2 SMALL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF YANKEE QUARTZ MINING COYANKEE QUARTZ MINING CO. REGISTERED, CLUNESphotographs, mining, yankee quartz mining -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive, Collection of Mining info – Green Cover 1885-1893. Annual Report of the Secretary for Mines and Water Supply 1886. The Scotchman's United Quartz Mining Company Limited - Directors Report 1885. No's 1 & 2 North Scotchman's Minute Book 1886, 1885 - 1893
Green Cover 1885-1893stawell, mining -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Archive, Coolgardie Gold Mining McCoy Welshman's Flat Minute Book 1895-1897 Pages 1-64 Lyonase Gold Mining Coy Stony Creek Halls Gap Minutes 1899 Pages 67-78 Shareholders List, 1895 - 1897 & 1899
Dark Green Cover with Brown Suede Binding and Corners. - Red with Gold Writing on Spine - Minute Bookstawell, mining -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph, World Mining Games Team at the 2002 Careers Fair, 2002
World Mining Games Team at the 2002 Careers Fairworld mining games, vc scholarships award night, careers fair -
Federation University Historical Collection
Letter - Letterhead, Australasian Insititute of Mining Engineers, 09/11/2010
Invitation for Ballarat School of Mines students to visit.Typed letter on Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers letterhead. australasian institute of mining engineers, d.l. stirling, visits, ausimm -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Hydraulic and Placer Mining, 1898, 1905
Blue/black hard covered book of 234 pages including index and photographic reproductions. Contents include Uses of Water in Mining; Geology of Placer Deposits; Gold Recovery; Flumes, ditches, dams, pipes; Giants, valaves, gates, weirs, miner's inch, pressure box, dams; gravel elvators; exploiting. mining, hydraulics, water, dredge, dredging, gold mining -
Lakes Entrance Regional Historical Society (operating as Lakes Entrance History Centre & Museum)
Book, Government Printer, Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ended 31st December 1887, 1887
Reports of the Mining Registrars for Mining Districts of Ballarat Beechworth Sandhurst Maryborough castlemaine Ararat and Gippsland to 31st December 1887 Geological details mine plans and maps are included.mines and mining, government, geographic -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - Kangaroo Flat Gold Mine Collection: photos of Woodvale site, Daly property, pre dam construction, 1986
Photographs taken at the time of the purchase by Western Mining Corporation of the property owned by G.P. Daly of Raywood Road, Woodvale, in 1986. The intent of the purchase was to provide land for the Woodvale ponds. Land size was 16 acres, known as Allotment 13, Section 3, Parish of Nerring. Paper with two colour photographs attached, each of three photos joined to show landscape view, of the property purchased from G.P Daly by Western Mining Corporation. Photographs show rural land, grassy paddocks with tree line in background. Barb wire fence visible in foreground of bottom photo. Top photograph is titled 23. Daly property looking south-east. Bottom photograph is titled 24. Daly property looking north east. woodvale, g.p. daly, western mining corporation, purchase -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Report, Extract from the Victoria Mining Surveyors & Registrars Reports, Quarter ended 31st March, 1883, including activities of The Ringwood Antimony Tribute Company and The Ringwood Consols Company
Catalogue card reads, "1883 - Reports of the Mining Surveyors & Registrars. Quarter ended 31st March, 1883". -
Linton and District Historical Society Inc
Letter, Berry, Anderson & Co Ballarat, Victoria, Jubilee Consols Gold Mining Company, 1899, 4.8.1899
Plain white paper with side perforations. Pre-printed note appears to have been detached from a book or a form. Date and share information filled in by hand. Letter is dated 4/8/1899, recipient's name not recorded. Letter accompanies scrip for 200 shares in the Jubilee Consols Gold Mining Coy., No Liability. Shares are numbered 5201-300 and 21501-600. Address of company printed at top: "7 Lydiard St, Ballarat". Name of manager printed at bottom: "R Gilpin, Manager".Text: " JUBILEE CONSOLS GOLD MINING COY., / NO LIABILITY / 7 Lydiard St., / Ballarat / 4/8/1899 / Dear Sir, / Herewith I beg to hand you Scrip / for 200 Shares in the above / Company. Nos. 5201/300 / 21501/600 / R. GILPIN, Manager.jubilee consols gold mining company, r. gilpin -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Image, Clare Gervasoni, Ballarat Mining Exchange, 2020, 16/05/2020
This photo was taken during 'Lock Downs' during the Covid19 Pandemic. Colour photograph of the Mining Exchange in Lydiard Street North, Ballarat.lydiard street north, ballarat mining exchange, stockbrockers, pandemic, covid 19 -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Map, Plan of Apsley Co. Prospectus Apsley Gold Mining Company, 1895
Plan of Apsley Co. Prospectus Apsley Gold Mining Companystawell -
Myrtleford and District Historical Society
Gold Mining Sign
This sign was required to be displayed in the vicinity of gold mining sites. Myrtleford district was known to have had 100 sites within a ten mile radius of the town; the sign was recovered by Charlie McFadyen, a local prospector and fossicker, of some 60 yearsThe sign relates to local gold mining activity, a key source of wealth and employment from 1854 to the late 19th century. Such signs continued to be in use during the period between World War 1 and 2,including the period of the Great Depression.Tin rectangular mining sign embossed with a warningInscription: "THIS LAND IS AURIFEROUS AND SUBJECT TO MINING CONDITIONS"auriferous mining -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - MINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY - PETITION, 1877
MINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY - PETITION - submitted to the legislative assembly of the colony of Victoria. 1877Wm. L. Jones, Mining Board of the Mining District of Ballarat.government, state, mines act, bendigo, mining, sandhurst, gold mining. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Notes and formulae for mining students, 1897, 1897
J.H. Merivale was a prodfessor of mining in the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. H.F. Bulman was an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of the federated Institution of Mining Engineers. Green hard covered book of 188 pages. mining, brook, mining students, mathematics, newcastle coal field, ropes, chains, seams, dykes, dams, timber measure, timber costing, mines act, rules, explosives act, horses, windmills, horse power, boilers explosions, compressed air, wire ropes, steam, water power, electricity, sinking, winding, draining, hauling, chemistry, gases, ventilation, boring, formulae -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 1923
132 page book listing members of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, London. -
Ballarat Heritage Services
Photograph - Image, Ballarat Mining Exchange, c1903, c1895
Black and white image of the Mining Exchange in Lydiard Street North, Ballarat.lydiard street north, ballarat mining exchange, stockbrockers -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document - Document - Article, Edwards' Pyrites Works, Ballarat IN Australian Mining & Metallurgy, 1904, 1904
An online article downloaded. From the book 'Australian Mining & Metallurgy" by Donald Clark, special commissioner to the Australian Mining Standard. It includes images of the Ballarat works. It also includes an article on the Kalgurli Gold Mines, Limitededwards' pyrites works, edwards' mechanical ore roasing and chloridising furnace, sebastopol, roasting and chlorination, kalgurli gold mines -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Colour, Ballarat Mining Exchange, c1975
Three colour photographs of the Ballarat Mining Exchange in Lydiard Street North, Ballarat.ballarat mining exchange, stockbrokers, share trading, signwriting, purple and gold coffee shop -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Fraser Park Mining Equipment, 15/03/2000
7079: Fraser Park Sign. 7079a Steam Winding Engine and Bucket. 7079b Showing three items from a distance. 7079c Same as 7079b but from a differnt angle. 7079d Bailing Tank, Cage and Truck. 7079e Same as 7079a but from the other side. 7079f Gig and Rake 7079g Same as 7079f but from a different angle8 Colour Photographs showing equipment used in mining the Quartz Reef minesgold mining -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Oriental Gold Mining Company c1880's. Mining Scene looking North probably from Fire Station Tower
Mining Scene looking North probably from Fire Station. Grant and Lamont's Battery in corner left side, in background of photograph. In Centre right is No1 North Cross Reef Mine. On left behind the tree is No2 North Cross Reef Mine. On right is Oriental Mine.Houses and yard in foreground. Poppet heads to right of centre and right Crushing Battery on left of image.stawell mining -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Literary work - Envelope, Packet: Percydale - small mining township - history written by Betty Austin of Ringwood (June 1966)
Percydale - small mining township - history written by Betty Austin, Kendall Street Ringwood -
Ringwood and District Historical Society
Map, Department of Mines, Plan of area applied for under the mining leases regulations in the township of Ringwood between Maroondah Highway and Mt. Dandenong Road. Mining District of Castlemaine, County of Mornington, Parish of Ringwood T Area 58(A) 2 (R)15(P) Acres, Roods, Perches. 1934, 20-Feb-34
Map of the township of Ringwood with subdivisions between Maroondah Highway and Mt. Dandenong Road. the area applied for on lease No.8210 by E.G.Browne.Mining District of Castlemaine, County of Mornington, Parish of Ringwood T Area 58(A) 2 (R)15(P) Acres, Roods, Perches.Buff coloured sheet foolscap with black printing showing map of the township of Ringwood between Maroondah Highway and Mt. Dandenong Road. Mining District of Castlemaine, County of Mornington, Parish of Ringwood T Area 58(A) 2 (R)15(P) Acres, Roods, Perches +Additional Keywords: Browne E.G.