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Stawell Historical Society Inc
Handmade frypan
... News about Metal Detecting. and Gold Mining in the 1980's ... Time News about Metal Detecting. and Gold Mining in the 1980's ...Hand Made by Joe Mitchell Alluvial Miner at Deep Lead. Died around 1991 age about 70 Blacksmither. Wroye to Stawell Time News about Metal Detecting. and Gold Mining in the 1980's Black Metal with HandleMade by Joe Mitchell Deep Lead -
Clunes Museum
Print, R GROSSE
... GOLD MINING COMPANY CLUNES... PHILLIP AND COLONIAL GOLD MINING COMPANY CLUNES TWO PRINTS, COPIED ...TWO PRINTS, COPIED TO BUFF COLOURED PAPER, MOUNTED IN GOLD COLOURED TIMBER FRAME. PRINTS TAKEN FROM LITHOGRAPHSTOP IMAGE PRINTED IN BLACK: TOWN OF CLUNES - POPULATION 4874 NUMBER OF BUILDINGS 1100 GOLD FIRST DISCOVERED HER IN JUL 1851 BOTTOM IMAGE PRINTED IN BLACK: PORT PHILLIP AND COLONIAL GOLD MINING COMPANY CLUNESport phillip mine, township of clunes -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph, c1900
... Street colonial australia australian gold rushes mining ...Believed to have been taken sometime between 1858 and 1908, featuring a man with moustache, dressed in hat and long riding coat, seated on a bob-tailed horse, is stopped in the middle of a wide dirt road in Beechworth. He is outside a row of businesses, including R.McKenzie & Sons Grain Store and Mackenzie Family Store (Wholesale & Retail Est. 1855), along a sloping hill. Behind the main rider are a parked horse and laden two-wheeled cart backed up directly outside the grain store's verandah, and another man is driving a horse and four-wheeled wagon forward towards them. At the bottom of the hill is a bridge (Newtown Bridge) with forked road on the far side, leading to a number of houses on both sides of another hill. This image is looking down Bridge Street, Newtown, Beechworth and across to Ford Street (left) and High Street (right). Road-making was a focus of town development during the 1850s, and the wide streets were created on the instructions of the surveyor-general to be between sixty-six and ninety-nine feet wide to give the town a pleasing aspect.This photograph is important in showing the development and expansion of the various businesses and buildings in Bridge Street of Newtown, Beechworth. Black and white rectangular photograph printed on paperReverse: 6980/ PH 118/ 1998.00059/beechworth, new town, newtown, newtown beechworth, local business, mackenzie family store, mackenzie's family store, mackenzie, grain store, bridge, ford steet, high street, colonial australia, australian gold rushes, mining technology, beechworth historic district, indigo gold trail, migration, indigo shire, mckenzie and sons grainstore, mckenzie family store, mckenzie, newtown bridge -
Orbost & District Historical Society
gold panning dish, mid - late 19th century
... russell-doug gold-panning mining..., such as gold, remained at the bottom. (ref. Museum Victoria) This pan ...Panning dishes were used for washing fine gold from river sediments or from the residue trapped in cradles and puddling tubs. They were often used on the edge of streams/rivers to sift gold from alluvial soil or crushed quartz. This simple pan would have been filled with sand and gravel which might have contained gold. The pan was submerged in the water and shaken to sort the gold from the gravel and other material, with the lighter material gradually being washed over the lip until only the heavy deposits, such as gold, remained at the bottom. (ref. Museum Victoria) This pan was used by George Henry Douglas Russell Snr. As a young man prior to his enlistment in WW1 he panned for gold using this dish. During the war he became a vet sergeant in charge of horse lines.Gold panning is the oldest and simplest method of extracting gold. Gold pans had widespread use in alluvial gold fields where water is available. This item is an example of the type of pan commonly used on Victorian gold fields.A circular dull metal panning dish which has a wide rolled top lip which tapers down to a smaller diameter for the base which is flat. The pan has been made from ironmetal which has a coating of another metal with a matte grey finish. It has a small hanging hole and a reinforcing ring all around the top.russell-doug gold-panning mining -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Photograph, 1920-1950
... rushes mining technology beechworth historic district indigo gold ...This image taken between 1920-1930 depicts open-cut hydraulic sluicing at the Three Mile Mine, located about five kilometres south of Beechworth. Alluvial, or surface, mining began on this site in the 1850s, but was soon replaced by hydraulic sluicing methods. By the start of 1880 it is estimated that nine hundred miles of water races had been cut though soil and rock in the Beechworth district. Hydraulic sluicing employs high pressure jets of water to blast away large areas of earth and wash it down to be run through a sluice box. Gold gets caught in the sluice and the remaining slurry is washed away. Large water quantities were required for hydraulic sluicing, and the long water races and deep tailraces that were constructed were considered great engineering feats. This method of mining is extremely effective, but causes significant environmental damage and impacts to waterways and agricultural operations. Miners at Beechworth built extensive networks of races and dams to secure reliable supplies of water on a scale far greater than elsewhere in Victoria. By the 1880s Beechworth's water barons continued to hold more than half of all the water right licences on issue and undertook sluicing operations on a massive scale. The manipulation of surface and ground water via race networks was well planned and recorded in detail by local mining surveyors. The maps that were created, combined with modern geo-spatial technologies, provide a vital key in understanding the great lengths to which miners went to capture and control critical water resources. Today, Three Mile mine is called Baarmutha. The Three Mile Mine was unproductive until 1865 when John Pund and three other miners secured a fifteen year license and constructed a water race from Upper Nine Mile Creek to Three Mile Creek. In the early twentieth century Pund & Co. averaged over one thousand ounces of gold per year from the mine. After Pund's death in 1915, GSG Amalgamated Co operated the site, continuing sluicing until 1950. This image of hydraulic sluicing methods shows the extent of water-works engineering in the landscape. This photograph has historic and research potential for understanding changes to the landscape, the evolution of mining methods, and the extensive construction, manipulation and management of water networks in the Beechworth district. Black and white rectangular photograph on matte paperReverse: 7597-1 / Sluice Mining / Copied from original on loan from Webb (Qld) / Donated Nov 2009 / Baarmutha Three Mile Mine c1920-1950 / Managed by the Plain Bros then Parkinsons / Current Location is: Beechworth Animal Shelter / used for Baarmuthaburke museum, beechworth museum, beechworth, gold fields, gold rush, victorian gold rush, hydraulic sluicing, spring creek, netwown falls, mining tunnels, water races, tailraces, gold ming history, colonial australia, australian gold rushes, mining technology, beechworth historic district, indigo gold trail, indigo shire, john pund, water manipulation, water engineering, three mile creek, three mile mine, water race, large-scale mining methods, historical mining construction, alluvial mining, mining environmental impacts, baarmutha, water barons -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Black and White, Victoria United Gold Mine
... victoria united gold mine mining Black and white photograph ...Black and white photograph on worked at the Victoria United Gold Mine.victoria united gold mine, mining -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Ballarat Progress Association, Beautiful Ballarat, 1912
... booklet. churches education schools gold ballarat mining tourism ...Tourist booklet.Soft covered book of eighty pages. Includes fold out map of Ballarat and illustrations such as Sturt Street, Ballarat Town Hall, Ballarat East Town Hall, Lake Wendouree, Botanical Gardens, statues, Ballarat Grammar School, Ballarat College, St Patrick's College, Ballarat Agricultural High School, Ballarat School of Mines and Industries, Bo Peep Falls, Cobb and Co., Lal Lal Falls.churches, education, schools, gold, ballarat, mining, tourism, railway, craig's hotel, cobb and co, wallace buter factory, the taffy king, eureka stockade, gordon brothers big store, ballarat east town hall, ballarat brewing company, lake wendouree, lake view hotel, ballarat botanical gardens, statues, boer war monument, club hotel, ballarat east gardens, new imperial gold mine, camp hotel, lal lal falls, bo beep creek -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document, Colony of Victoria, Gold License, 1852
... was thought to be an unfair mining tax (or gold license). On 29 ...From 1851 the Victorian government required all men on Victorian Goldfields to carry a Gold License. The fee was one pound per month, and was payable in advance. There was agitation surrounding the gold license which was thought to be an excessive fee and did not give the bearer right to representation. On 03 December 1854 the gold diggers on the Eureka Lead fought a short battle against the army and police troopers. A few months later a new system of taxing gold diggers was introduced - the Miner's Right. The Gold License c allowed the bearer to 'dig, search for, and remove gold on and from any Crown Lands' within the district specified on the license. The license was not transferable, and had to be produced on demand. This has resulted in most surviving licenses showing evidence of having been folded and kept in a pocket.The Victorian Gold Licence was issued from 1851 until early 1855. Every man on a Victorian goldfield had to carry a valid gold license, so few survived the harsh treatment of being carried around a working goldfield. There was much dissatisfaction about what was thought to be an unfair mining tax (or gold license). On 29 November 1854 Ballarat miners burnt their licenses on Bakery Hill. On 3 December 1854 the Eureka Stockade Battle took place, resulting in the Goldfields Commission. The first Miner's Right was issued in late June 1855, and in July the first Local Courts were elected by miner's right holders. This gold license was issued around one year after the issue of the first Victorian gold license in August 1851, making it a rare early survivor. This fold lines on this Gold License are evidence of being carried around by the bearer. A original Victorian paper gold license glued onto on old card poster. The original colour of the paper was pale blue. The license has undergone conservation treatment and has been removed from the card.'231', '9 Nov 1852', [name illegible], 'Lod dist [Loddon District?], [Commissioner illegible - probably M. Cohn]gold license, gold licence, mining, cohn, eureka -
Federation University Historical Collection
Plan, Ballarat Goldfield - Geological Survey of Victoria, 1981
... ballarat geology geological gold nuggets mining mining companies ...Coloured geological plan showing the Ballarat goldfields. It includes coloured scales and nuggets from the Ballarat Goldfield. It also shows leads and mines.ballarat, geology, geological, gold nuggets, mining, mining companies, gold leads -
Federation University Historical Collection
Document - Documents, Special Gold Smelters' Regulations and Licences
... license gold smelters mining A copy of printed pages Special Gold ...A copy of printed pages gold license, gold smelters, mining -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book - Report, Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars, 1867, 30/06/1969 - 31/12/1881
... E.J. Barker Library (top floor) Mount Helen goldfields gold ....1) 39 page report dated 30 September 1867 .2) 40 page report dated 31 December 1871 .3) 46 page report dated 30 June 1872 .4) 42 page report dated 31 December 1873 .5) 45 page report dated 30 September 1872 .6) 44 page report dated 31 December 1881gold statistics, mining survey -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MINING & GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOL.2, NO 4, 1941
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Mining & Geological Journal, March 1941, Vol.2, No.4. Published by Department of Mines Victoria, 136 pages of Mine Reports, articles on mines, photographs, illustrations, maps & advertisements. Name on cover A.Richardson 29 Harrison St Bendigo.Dept of Mines Victoriagold mines, mining, mining - mines - mining equipment, axedale - fletchers mine. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Tool - MINERS PICK HEAD: STEEL
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Miners Pick Head ; Steel, Approx 30cm. Previously #26gold, goldfields, mining -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - DEBORAH GOLD MINES ( NORTH DEBORAH ? )
... BENDIGO Mining deborah mine Bendigo gold mines Deborah Gold Mine ...Photo: Deborah Gold Mine ( un-named , possibly North Deborah ). Image shows poppet head, chimney, tailings dump. On Lh side of image, dam in centre foreground, On bottom of photo' Deborah Gold Mines looking towards Bendigo, No. 16 'bendigo, mining, deborah mine, bendigo, gold mines, deborah gold mine, mining -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - AUSTRALIAN MINING HISTORY MONOGRAPHS, NUMBER 5,THE MINER VERSUS THE GOLD COMMISSIONER, c2000
... versus Joseph Panton miner Gold Ralph W Birrell Australian Mining ...Australian Mining History Monographs Number 5, The Miner versus the Gold Commissioner, William Howitt v. Joseph Panton. Bendigo 1853. Publisher: Zlota Press, Strathfieldsaye Victoria. 18 pages.Ralph W Birrellgold, goldfields, mining licences, history bendigo mining, william howitt versus joseph panton, miner gold -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - AUSTRALIAN MINING HISTORY MONOGRAPHS, NUMBER 4, THE ZEBINA LANES, FATHER AND SON, c2000
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Australian Mining History Monographs Number 4, The Zebina Lanes, father and son, Australian Miners, Manager and Mining Entrepreneurs. Publisher: Zlota Press, Strathfiedsaye, Victoria. 15 pages.Ralph W Birrellgold, goldfields, mining, mining history, zebina lanes, entrepreneurs -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MINING & GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. VOL,4. NO.3, 1951
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Mining and Geological Journal, Vol.4, No.3. March 1951. Published by Department of Mines Victoria with articles on Mines & mining including Bendigo mines with Photographs, Illustrations, Maps & Advertisements. Name on front A.Richardson 29 Harrison St Bendigo.Dept of Mines Victoria.gold mines, mining, mining - mines - mining equipment, central deborah mine. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MINING & GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. VOL.S,NO.6, 1942
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Mining & Geological Journal, Vol.2, No.6. March 1942. Published by Department of Mines Victoria, with articles on mines and mining including Bendigo mines, Photographs, Illustrations, Maps & Advertisements. Name on cover A Richardson 29 Harrison St Bendigo.Dept of Mines Victoriagold mines, mining, mining - mines - mining equipment. bendigo mines. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MINING & GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL. VOL,2.NO.4, 1941
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Mining & Geological Journal, Vol.2,No.4. March 1941. Published by Dept of Mines Victoria, 256 pages of articles on mining & minerals with photographs, illustrations, maps & advertisements. Name on cover A.Richardson 29 Harrison St Bendigo.Dept of Mines Victoriagold mines, mining, mining - mines - mining equipment, bendigo mines. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - MINING & GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL VOL.2, NO2, 1940
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Mining & Geological Journal, January 1940, Vol.2, No.2. Published by Department of Mines Victoria, 136 pages of Mine Reports, articles on mines, photographs, illustrations, maps & advertisements. Name on cover A.Richardson 29 Harrison St Bendigo.Dept of Mines Victoriagold mines, mining, mining - mines - mining equipment, axedale - fletchers mine. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - VI CATTANACH COLLECTION: EARLY DAYS ON BENDIGO, 1979
... Gold mines & mining-Victoria-Bendigo district... BENDIGO History early recollections Gold mines & mining-Victoria ...Early days on Bendigo Author F.McKenzie Clarke Edited by Frank Cusack. The recollections of life on early Bendigo first appeared in the pages of the Bendigo Advertiser under the title 'The first discovery of gold at Bendigo' published by Queensberry Hill Press 86 pages. Cream colour soft cover.F. McKenzie Clarkbendigo, history, early recollections, gold mines & mining-victoria-bendigo district -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - MAP: VICTORIA MINING DISTRICTS, MINING DIVISIONS AND THE GOLD FIELDS, 1866
... MAP: VICTORIA MINING DISTRICTS, MINING DIVISIONS AND THE... victoria Victoria Bendigo goldfields gold reefs mining divisions ...Map: printed map stuck on backing paper ( waxed ? ) to support material. Shows mining districts, divisions and goldfields of Victoria. Printed in blue ink on bottom ' this map compiled in 1866. Printed in 1869.' Printed on bottom ' engraved by William Slight under the direction of R. Brough Smyth FGS Lon., the Hon John Macgregor MLA Minister of Mines, published 24th. October, 1866. Revised and corrected by Arthur Everitt, January 25th. 1869. On back of map ' this mapp was compiled by the Mines Department of Victoria 24th. October 1866, corrected by Arthur Everett 15th. January 1869. Presented to the Bendigo Historical Society by E. Hayward 1st. December, 1950.map, victoria, victoria, bendigo, goldfields, gold reefs, mining divisions, map -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO A GENERAL HISTORY 1880S - 1970S, 1992
... BENDIGO Mining goldfields report Bendigo gold goldfields mining ...Bendigo - a general history 1880's - 1970s. Book contains a chronological history of Bendigo from 1880s - 1970s. Material is referenced. Prepared for North Central Goldfields Project: Bendigo Goldfield.David Bannearbendigo, mining, goldfields report, bendigo, gold, goldfields, mining, history -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CENTRAL DEBORAH GOLD MINE - HISTORICAL RECORD
... Gold central deborah gold mine Central Deborah Gold Mine Mining ...Hand written notes on the Historical Record of the Central Deborah Gold Mine written various size paper. It mentions the machinery, Miners' Wages, Price of Gold, Predictions of Victor Pabst, mining correspondent of the 'Bendigo Independent'.Other mining machinery. Written by A Richardson, dated 21/10/1971. Written in black pen - Written for Jim Sullivan - Central Deborah. Handed in on 20/10/1971.mine, gold, central deborah gold mine, central deborah gold mine, mining machinery, history of the central deborah gold mine, victor pabst, bendigo independent, the bendigo goldfield - resources of the central area, new monument battery, golden carshalton battery, north deborah, state battery, victoria hill, price of gold -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO'S CENTRAL DEBORAH GOLD MINE AND ITS ERA, 1993
... Deborah Gold Mine mining heritage James A. Lerk Bendigo's Central ...Bendigo's Central Deborah Gold Mine and its Era A history of the Central Deborah Gold Mine. Dedicated to' all those who toiled, beneath the soil' Written by James A. Lerk.James A. Lerkbendigo, history, central deborah gold mine, bendigo, history, central deborah gold mine, mining, heritage -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - BENDIGO GOLDFIELDS PETITION 1853
... Goldfields mining licences History-Australia-Victoria-Bendigo-Gold ...The 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition, containing names of Gold Diggers and other residents, to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Victoria with their grievances regarding license fees & other matters.gold, goldfields, mining licences, history-australia-victoria-bendigo-gold miners. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH OF DEVONSHIRE DUMPS 1954
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Black and white photo attached to board. Image shows Devonshire sand dumps, man standing in centre holding a large hose, squirting water at the surface of the dump. High walls of dump behind. On back " Devonshire Dumps Sluicing 1951"gold mines, mining equipment, devonshire sand dump -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - PHOTOGRAPH OF DEVONSHIRE SANDS DUMP
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Black and white photograph on board. Image shows machine with conveyor belt emptying sand into a trailer harnessed to a draft horse. Machine has plate on side 'Pat No. 3281' A man is standing holding the draft horse bridle with other hand on shaft of trailer. Man standing (LH side) observing the proceedings is wearing a suit and hat. Man standing with back to camera in bottom RH corner. In background, layered sand. Written on back in pencil 'Devonshire Sands'gold mines, mining equipment, devonshire sand dump -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - POPPET HEAD
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Black and white photograph of poppet head and mine shed. Car parked on RH side, possibly 1920's to 1930's vintage. Possibly South New Moon mine, Eaglehawk.gold mines, mining equipment, poppet head -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Photograph - MINE SHEDS
... Inc. History House 11 Mackenzie Street Bendigo goldfields GOLD ...Black and white photograph. Mine shed constructed of timber, flat roof and on wooden stumps. Written on back '1940'. Possibly South New Moon Mine Eaglehawk.gold mines, mining equipment, south new moon mine site