Photographs showing the works at the Great Southern Mine, cyanide plant, which was an important part of the process of separating gold from the ore.One of 4 small black and white photographs, mounted on a single album page. This one shows six men, taking a break from their work in a corrugated iron shed. Written on album page between photos: "Great Southern Mine Cyanide Plant 1931"great southern, gold mining, gold processing, cyanide plant

Photographs showing the works of the Great Southern Mine, cyanide plant, which was an important part of the process of separating gold from the ore.One of 4 small black and white photographs, mounted on a single album page. This one shows several large corrugated tanks.Written on album page between photos: "Great Southern Mine Cyanide Plant 1931"great southern, gold mining, gold processing, cyanide plant

Photographs showing the works at the Great Southern Mine, cyanide plant, which was an important part of the process of separating gold from the ore.One of 4 small black and white photographs, mounted on a single album page. This one shows buildings, tanks and equipment of the plant.Written on album page between photos: "Great Southern Mine Cyanide Plant 1931"great southern, gold mining, gold processing, cyanide plant

Photographs showing the works at the Great Southern Mine, cyanide plant, which was an important part of the process of separating gold from the ore.One of 4 small black and white photographs, mounted on a single album page. This one shows three pumps in a corrugated iron building.Written on album page between photos: "Great Southern Mine Cyanide Plant 1931"great southern, gold mining, gold processing, cyanide plant

Photograph of mine workers in front of mine structure. The particular mine is not identifiedBlack and white photograph, mounted on cardboard, showing a group of men posing in front of a gold mine structuregold mining, mining industry, mine structures

Photocopy of a black and white photograph of the Great Southern Mine. Mine structure is at the centre of the photo, a fenced paddock on the right, and a large mullock heap in the background.Written on back of copy in pencil "Great Southern Mine heap" and in pen "Great Southern Mine".great southern, gold mining, mining industry

One of two sepia coloured photographs, photocopied on A4 paper. Photographs copied either way up. Each has a typed caption.Caption: "Gravel heaps at grid 575-602 of Chiltern Valley No. 2, Gold-Mine"chiltern valley, mining industry, gold mines, gold mining

Coloured photograph on a post card, with brown border, showing a view of a gold mining operationsouthern consols gold mine, gold mining, mining industry

Black and white photograph on a post card, with brown border, showing the Prentice and Southern Gold Mine.prentice and southern gold mine, gold mining, mining industry

Black and white photograph is of the Prentice and Southern Mine. Colour image is of a painting identified as The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet.Two postcards pasted onto either side of a piece of green cardboard, probably cut from an album. One photo is a black and white photograph. One is a colour reproduction of a painting.At bottom of black and white photograph: "The Prentice and Southern Gold Mine, Rutherglen"prentice and southern gold mine, angelus, gold mining, millet, painting

Colour photograph of a story board marking former site of a gold processing cyanide plant at Christmastown. Photo is mounted on an album page.storyboards, working miners gold mining co, gold mining, cyanide plant

Colour photograph of the Henry Sutton display in the Ballarat Mining Exchange during Ballarat Heritage Weekend.henry sutton, sutton autocar, ballarat mining exchange, ballarat heritage weekend

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Nimons Bridge was built in 1890, as part of the then Ballarat-Linton railway. The bridge is 17 spans with tall timber piers of four driven piles each, with triple sets of diagonal cross-bracing and walers and a single row of longitudinal horizontal bracing between piers. The spans are of a uniform twenty feet (6.1 metres), originally supported by four 21-inch x 9-inch (535 mm x 230 mm) Kauri timber beams per span, following the standard V.R. design of the period. When the superstructure was rebuilt after the 1953 fire, the timber beams were replaced with two 24-inch (610mm) deep rolled-steel-joists on each span. These are marked 'Lancashire Steel Co., Scotland' and are believed to have been second-hand. The deck of transverse-timber planks is 103.6 metres in length. Overall the bridge has an impressive appearance with its exceptionally tall triple-cross-braced piers creating a 'three-tiered' effect, with the deck 19.2 metres above the Woady Yaloak River. The Ballarat-Skipton line closed in 1985. Nimons Bridge has been recently restored, as part of the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail. How is it significant? Nimons Bridge is significant for technical, historic and aesthetic reasons at a State level. Why is it significant? Nimons Bridge is technically significant as Victoria's fourth-tallest timber trestle bridge when built, and as the third-tallest surviving example. It is also the second-largest composite bridge combining traditional timber piers with RSJ spans and a timber deck and falls within a select group of fewer than ten timber railway bridges with horizontal longitudinal bracing between the piers and three sets of double cross-bracing on its tallest piers, creating a visually striking 'three tiered' effect that enhances its viaduct form. Nimons Bridge is historically significant as having served initially the mining community at Linton, then the Western District agricultural area and in later years a kaolin quarry at Pittong. Nimons Bridge is historically significant as a representative of the 'light' branch line methodology that stimulated the explosion of railway construction in Victoria during the 1880s, and provides an interesting contrast with the more solid and vastly more expensive railway viaducts built in similar terrain on Victorian main lines, at Moorabool and Taradale, in the late 1850s. Approached by a deep cutting and high embankment at either end, the bridge represents a very cost-effective late 19th century engineering solution to the characteristic physiography of western Victoria with flat basalt plains intersected by deep wide valleys occasionally subject to severe flooding. Nimons Bridge is aesthetically significant for its visually impressive viaduct form, crossing a deep and steep-sided valley that is part of a rich cultural landscape. Within close proximity of the bridge are mullock dumps, tailings, shaft sites and other relics of the deep-lead alluvial mining era. The bridge is the most visually spectacular timber-trestle rail bridge in Western Victoria and is among the most spectacular timber-trestle rail bridges surviving anywhere in Victoria. It is part of the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail. Classified by the National Trust :02/10/2000 (http://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/67986)Colour photograph of a log bridge known as Nimon's Bridge.ballarat-linton, nimons bridge, nimon's bridge, log bridge, viaduct, timber-trestle rail bridge

Water flowing through the tunnel at The Blowhole, Hepburnhepburn, landscape, heritage, hepburn regional park, mining, blowhole, floods, weather, geology

This plaque commemorates the decision in July 1892 at a meeting in the George Hotel, Ballarat of The Amalgamated Mining Managers Association of Australasia to form The Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers which was established in Adelaide in February 1893. Now know as The Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. April, 1993.ballarat, george hotel, ausimm, amalgamated mining managers association of australasia, australasian institute of mining engineers, australasian institute of mining and metallurgy

This plaque commemorates the decision in July 1892 at a meeting in the George Hotel, Ballarat of The Amalgamated Mining Managers Association of Australasia to form The Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers which was established in Adelaide in February 1893. Now know as The Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy. April, 1993.ballarat, george hotel, ausimm

Many Cornish from St Just came to the Victorian goldfields. They were excellent miners. St Just is a World Heritage Site. st just, cornwall, cornish, mining, industrial heritage

Many miners came from the St Just are in Cornwall to Ballarat, Victoria, Australia for the gold rushes. This sign reads that St Just, Cornwall is a Cornish Mining World Heritage Site twinned with Huelgoat and Bendigo.ellis, st just, bendigo, miners

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A gold pan was used to wash alluvial gold from gravel and dirt.Colour photographs of a large gold pan.gold pan, mining, gold mining tools tools

The Blowhole is an artifical diversion tunnel in the Jim Crow Creek made by Chinese miners seeking gold around the 1870s. Ann Gervasoni and Clare Gervasoni stand on the edge of the pool associated with The Blowhole. hepburn, hepburn regional park, blowhole, mining, heritage, chinese

Colour photograph of a windlass at Sovereign Hill, Ballarat East.sovereign hill, windlass, mining

Black and white panoramic view of the Band and Loch mine. ballarat, goldfield, mining, band and loch mine, redan

The first company to make a success of hard-rock (quartz) gold mining at Black Hill was the Black Hill Company, formed in 1859. Mining from the open-cut mine probably commenced in 1860 and by 1861 the company had erected the largest stamping mill in Victoria. The mill ran 24 hours a day until the end of 1864 and 12 hours a day in 1865. Open cut mining then ceased. Underground ore extraction continued at Black Hill until the early twentieth century.Photographic image of the abandoned open-cut mine at Black Hill, Ballarat, c1904 ballarat, black hill, mining, open cut, gold

Black and white panoramic view of the South Star Mine.ballarat, south star mine, mining, sebastopol

Image of a mining site on Black Hill, with the township of Ballarat in the background. black hill, mining, poppett head, black hill flat

The South Star Mine commenced operations in the 1880s and worke the quartz laods after the great floods of 1875 forced the closure of most alluvial mines. The South Star Mine sunk its first shaft in 1886, but broke into old alluvial workings and had to be abandoned because of flooding. The second shaft commenced in 1887, and was the deepest eer sunk in the Ballarat district, reaching 956 metres. 180 men worked three shifts each day.Colour photograph of the site of the South Star Mine in Sebastopol. sebastopol, albert street, south star mine, mining