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Longer hand chisel
8413.1 - Long hexagonal cross-sectional tip, and a wider disc-ring 2/5ths along its length -
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Hammered gad (chisel)
8412.1 - Metal spike with extensively hammered flared end, and a tapering tip that shows signs of being sharpened: the very ground to a new angle. -
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Broken-tipped gad (chisel
8411.1 - Long, narrow metal spike with tapered tip, broken at the very end. Shows slight flaring from hammering at blunt end. -
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Gad (chisel)
8410.1 - Short metal spike with tapered tip and flared head from repeated hammering. Tip appears to have been sharpened, then end ground to a new angle -
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4 large nails
unknown4 nails, 2 of which are similar to one another. the shortest has a roughly cubic base beneath the head and a screw-through the other end. the longest does not have a flared-out head, but along with this two matching nails (which do have flared heads) has a pointed tip with a square cross-section. -
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Long curved chisel
8406.1 - Long chisel, half of which is curved and flattened; one end is well-hammered. Unflattened half is roughly octagonal in cross-section. -
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Curved forked chisel
8405.1 - Forked, curved chisel; one end is well-hammered into a smoothly-curving surface. Use on mine rails, likely to lift rails by means of lever-action around railway spikes. -
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Straight chisel
8404.1 - Chisel meant to be hammered into a rock face. -
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Smaller crowbar
8403.1 - Crowbar- one end, bent, flattened and forked. The other mostly flattened, but also bent. -
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Crowbar
8402.1 - It's a crowbar- forked end, bent, other end merely flattened. -
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Rail spike
8401.1 - As you'd expect: shard of metal with asymmetrically flattened head. -
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Collection of nails
8400.1 to 9 - Conglomeration of nails, thick and rusted. Some are bent around others -
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joint reinforcement
unknown8 thick metal strips with regularly-shaped holes, likely to secure the rails to the sleepers in the mines. -
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drill core samples
purpose: unknown location: local7 different pieces of drill core samples of varying lengths and diameters -
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Brass scales, 1890 (Approx)
8388.1 - Brass-faced spring-balance scales, with hook and rope-ring, rated up to 200 pounds.- Salter's spring balance No 20 made in England - Silvester's (?) patent to weigh 200lb -
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Parallel ruler, Approxamitly between 1888 and 1892
8387.1 - Parallel ruler. 8387.2 - Wooden case.- Ruler: flavelle and Roberts, Sydney and London. - Case: C. Ladgrove, Korumburra. -
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Anemometer and case, Approxamitly June 29th, 1909
Calibration tests were made June 29th, 1909, all else is unknown.8386.1 - Biram's anemometer, 6 inch diameter, 5 dials, ten blades. "No. 1544," with wooden case and hand written note detailing applicable corrections after calibration tests. -
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Manual, 1911 (Approx)
Donated by Rosalind Hodgeson. Her grandfather was a mine inspector in Scotland and northern England.8385.1 - Book detailing a mine fireman's necessary knowledge. -
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Steel protractor, 1915 (Approx)
8384.1 - Large steel protractor.- Troughton and simms, London. - G.H.G. -
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Brass protractor
8383.1 - Brass protractor, marked down to 1, and with compass points- T.Bottoms -
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Terrestrite measuring equipment, 1888 (Approx)
8382.1 - Metal (likely steel) protractor, marked down to 0.5, used mostly in map drafting. 8382.2 - Wooden red velvet-lined case.- Flavelle bros and Roberts, Sydney and Brisbane. - 6692 a s x- similar marks were made and scratched out. - a h x -
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Mudstone and fossil fern with wood fragments
8317.1 - Overall rectangular mudstone containing fragments of fossilised wood and carbonised plant matter. -
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Fossil wood and plant matter
8316.1 - Small mudstone rock containing fragments of fossilised wood and plant matter. -
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Concrestion and fragmented shell
8315.1 - Pale grey concretion accompanied by darker grey and weathered fragments of its surrounding shell, in explicable placed on coarse sand in a wooden tray. -
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Concrestion with fossils
8314.1 - Irregularly shaped stone containing large concretion and numerous carbonised plant fossils. -
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Pseudofossil "egg"
813.1 - Tan coloured, flattened but highly ovoid concretion. Partial cross-sectional fracture reveals concretion's internal structure of sedimentary ring layers. -
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Cloven pseudofossil
Formed by sedimentary processes. 8312.1 - Rock split in half lengthways, revealing in both kidney-shaped halves a sedimentary concretion, itself split into un equal halves via cross-sectional fractures. The larger concretion fragment reveals a small carbonised plant fossil. -
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Small white conglomerate
8311.1 - Small quartz-rich conglomerate, ovoid in shape, white on most surfaces, brown on weathered surfaces. -
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Large white conglomorate
8310.1 - Quartz-rich conglomerate, irregular in shape, white, browned on weathered surfaces. -
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Black and white stone (yin-yang stone)
8309.1 - Small piece of mostly likely diorite, stone is half white plagioclase and quartz, half dark fine-grained minerals.