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Tool - COMPANY SEAL - CENTRAL GARDEN GULLY GOLD MINING COMPANY
Black enamelled cast iron company seal for the Central Garden Gully Gold Mining Company, with gold trim and C.G.Gully painted on one side in white paint.gold mines, mining equipment, company seal, bendigo-companies-gold mines-central garden gully gold mining company -
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Tool - COMPANY SEAL - MONUMENT HILL CONSOLIDATED
Black enamelled cast iron company seal for the Monument Hill Consolidated (Bendigo) mine, with gold trim and the name Mon.Con painted on one side in white paint.gold mines, mining equipment, company seal, bendigo-companies-gold mines-monument hill -
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Tool - COMPANY SEAL - NORTH VIRGINIA GOLD MINING COMPANY
Black enamelled cast iron company seal for the North Virginia Gold Mining Company with gold trim and the name N.Virginia painted on one side in white paint.gold mines, mining equipment, company seal, bendigo-companies-gold mines- north virginia -
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Tool - COMPANY SEAL - GENERAL CROSS HATCHED
Large black enamelled cast iron company seal with wooden handle, red and gold decoration, seal is a general cross hatched pattern.gold mines, mining equipment, company seal, bendigo-companies-gold mines-seals -
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Tool - SHOVEL - SHORT APPROX 1000MM
Shovel. Shaft has Imprint with D - Arrow - D.gold mining -
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Photograph - LANSELL'S BIG 180 MINE WORKERS, c.1870's - 1880's
Sepia photograph. Twenty nine mine workers posed in three lines. High stone retaining wall behind. Timber and iron buildings behind. Some men holding tools - blacksmiths with leather aprons holding hammers. One man holding a shovel, one man holding a saw. Inscriptions: on board in front of men 'Lansell's Big 180'person, group, mining -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION:THIMBLE
Metal thimble. Item is engraved in a cross hatch pattern. Item is rusted, out of shape and is missing the top.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION:THIMBLE
Metal thimble. Item is engraved in a series of dots. Item is rusted, cracked and has been flattened.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION:THIMBLE
Metal thimble. Item is engraved in a series of dots in the upper part with a border of decorative scrolls around the lower. Item is rusted and a little out of shape.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION:THIMBLE
Metal thimble. Item is engraved in a series of dots in the upper part with a worn border. Item is rusted and a little out of shape.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION: SHAKER TOP
Metal cocktail shaker top. Object is round and perforated with a metal knob in the centre. Knob has been bent over.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks, brooch, qc binks. -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION: 8 DRAM WEIGHT
Gold coloured metal 8 Dram Weight.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks, qc binks, weight -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION: INDISTINCT ROUND METAL OBJECT
Round metal objectbendigo, gold mining, qc binks -
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Tool - QC BINKS COLLECTION: INDISTINCT ROUND METAL OBJECT
Metal object. Half dome shape.bendigo, gold mining, qc binks -
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Document - NORTH DEBORAH GOLD MINING CO N. L. - BASIC WAGE INCREASE OF 4/- WEEK NOV 1952
Handwritten page of wages per week and wages per shift of the different mine workers, they were: Miner Learner, Miner, Miner Rise & Winze, Miner Dry Shaft, Miner Wet Shaft, Miner Leader Wet Shaft, Shift Boss, Shovellers Below, Shovellers Wet Shaft, Plat & Brace, Plat Wet, Winch Driver, Timberman, Timberman Shaft, Timberman Wet Shaft. For Surface workers: Shoveller, Blacksmith, Tool Sharpener, Engine Driver (Winding), Fireman 1 Boiler, Fireman 2 Boilers. Battery Workers: Batteryman, Batteryman Special, Battery Feeder, Cracker Attendant, Battery Driver, Battery Driver In Charge of Dynamo and Plant and Battery Driver in Charge of Dynamo. Basic Wage 11 pound 5 shillings Per Week. Wages for North Deborah No 1 Shaft November 1952.document, gold, north deborah gold mining co n. l., north deborah gold mining co n. l., basic wage increase of 4/- week nov 1952, north deborah no 1 shaft, basic wage -
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Tool - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: PRINTING BLOCK
Metal mounted on wooden block. Image of mine poppet head with shed in left foreground. (Central Red White & Blue?).mining, marketing, printing block, mccoll rankin & stanistreet -
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Tool - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION : CASH BOX CONTAINING RUBBER STAMPS
Rubber Stamps; - Cash Box, missing handle, no key, contains rubber stamps as per attached, some stamp impressions on piece of paper in box.see attached.mining, equipment, deborah mine, mccoll rankin & stanistreet -
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Tool - WES HARRY COLLECTION: ONE DRACHM WEIGHT
Rectangular brass weight, one side has the words ' One 3J Drachm ' embossed, and the reverse ' 'W & T Avery, Limited, Birmingham '. This weight would have been used with a set of gold scales.mining, marketing, brass weight, gold scales, brass weight, one drachm -
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Document - MCCOLL, RANKIN AND STANISTREET COLLECTION: NELL GWYNNE REEF N/L - STORES & TOOLS ON HAND, 9/8/1946
... Nell Gwynne Reef N/L gold mining inventory of stores & tools ...Document. 2 page list of inventory.McColl, Rankin & Stanistreetorganization, business, nell gwynne reef mine, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet, nell gwynne reef n/l, gold mining, inventory of stores & tools -
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Tool - MERCURY BUCKET
Cast iron mercury bucket, used to hold mercury, potentially in the process of recovering minute pieces of gold mixed in soil and sediments. See research page for description of one process of using mercury to extract gold.gold mines, mining equipment, mercury bucket, miners used mercury in a number of ways to amalgamate gold, with each mill or battery operator having their preferred method depending on the nature of the ore. by the late 1850s the most common way of crushing goldbearing quartz ores or consolidated alluvial cements was in a stamp battery. the battery featured heavy iron stamp heads held in a frame, with each head often weighing up to 500 pounds (226 kg) or more (see msv 1880, page 45) (birrell 2005). stamp heads were lifted and dropped by a rotating overhead cam shaft driven by a steam engine or water wheel. ore was fed into a large cast-iron battery box, mixed with a steady stream of water, and pulverised by the stamp heads. in some batteries, mercury was placed in the base of the boxes to amalgamate with freed gold. the violent agitation of the mercury in the mortar box, however, could cause the mercury to break into myriad tiny globules that were carried away by the water with the tailings, thus losing a certain amount of gold in the process (thompson 1867; ritchie & hooker 1997). the water and sand slurry was splashed by the falling stamps from the box through fine mesh screens and onto inclined wooden tables below the mortar box (figure 2). the tables were covered with copper sheets or plates coated with mercury, which caught and amalgamated with a portion of the gold. the grey putty-like amalgam was periodically scraped off the sheets and retorted in a furnace to collect the gold and recover the mercury for reuse. mercury was inevitably lost from the plates, while poor maintenance resulted in further losses of gold and mercury in the tailings. mercury use and loss from gold mining in 19th century victoria. peter davies1, susan lawrence, and jodi turnbull, department of archaeology and history, la trobe university. -
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Tool - GOLD MOULD
Cast Iron gold mould. Mould used in gold pour to shape ingot. Rectangular shape mould with rectangular handle.gold mines, mining equipment, gold mould -
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Tool - MINING TROLLEY WHEEL
... trolley. Tool MINING TROLLEY WHEEL ...Small Steel wheel off a mining trolley.mining, equipment, wheel