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Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - Photograph - black and white, Talbot Alluvial Mine: working a deep lead
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, prospecting method, talbot, alluvial mine, gold mining, mining, poppet head -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, Mines Department Laboratory, Melbourne
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, melbourne, mines department, laboratory -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, Mt Buffalo: a granitic massif intruded into silurian strata: Ovens Valley in background
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, mt buffalo, ovens valley -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, Jamieson Valley: Broad alluvial flats of recent geological formation: Silurian and Devonian Ranges in background
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, jamieson valley, geological formation, alluvial flats, silurian, devonian -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, Miners at work underground with a pneumatic drill
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, underground drilling, pneumatic drill, rail tracks, hand pushed cart, gold mining, mining, tools -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - black and white, New Red, White and Blue Consolidated Mine, Bendigo
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographvictoria, bendigo, consolidated mine, tower, new red, white and blue consolidated mine, poppet head, mining, gold mining -
Federation University Historical Collection
Photograph - colour, William Baragwanath, Department of Mines: Geological map of Victoria, c1935
Photograph included in book "Victoria: Gold and Minerals" issued by Mines Department Victoria, 1935Photographmap, department of mines, victoria, key to land formations, time periods, jurassic, geological map -
Parks Victoria - Maldon State Battery
Pan, Berdan
A Berdan pan was a grinding pan. The circular pan was set at an angle, and as the pan revolved, a heavy iron ball rotated in the lowest point, grinding sand or mineral to a fine powder. It was frequently used to grind impurities out of amalgam (gold in mercury), and to grind batch-lots of heavy mineral. It is also known as a ball mill. Two strong wooden A frames supporting large iron pivotable bowl with a large iron ball inside the bowl. There are cogs underneath bowl which are connected to rotating belts extending from main battery shaft. The chute attached below the bowl is directed into a circular metal container. The frame is painted green. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - STRUGNELL COLLECTION: UNDERGROUND SURVEY OF MINES, BENDIGO, 29-3-01
Map, Underground Survey of Mines, Bendigo, South Belle Vue United Co.,New Chum Line.Transverse Section. Signed H.S.Whitelaw29.3.01 Drawing appears to show samples of connecting horizontal shafts with their respective mineral contentsH.S.Whitelawmap, bendigo, south belle vue united co.. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Accessory - HARRIS COLLECTION: GOLD STICK PIN WITH NUGGET ATTACHED
Gold stick pin, gold nugget attached to top. Possibly used as tie/cravat or lapel pin. Gold nugget has black section - black mineral unknown. Donated by Harris family estate, Axedale.costume accessories, jewellery, gold tie pin, jonathan harris was the founder of gold on the hustler's hill. he sold his claim to thomas hustler in 1853. -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - BILL ASHMAN COLLECTION: CORRESPONDENCE
Water Analysis taken 18/3/1940. Blue Lake Supply Mount Gambier, SA. Gifford's Hotel Water Supply connected to this supply. Analysis gives the Grains per Gallon of the different minerals and the degrees of Hardness.sciences, instruments - general, scalebuoy, bill ashman collection - correspondence, blue lake supply mount gambier sa, gifford's mt gambier hotel -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Selwynite, Unknown
Selwynite is a fine-grained, compact green rock made primarily of chromian muscovite (fuchsite) and diaspore. Corundum and fuchsite can occur together in the form of massive aggregates or nodules. Often, copper carbonates are found as earthy films or tiny crystals in joint planes. The mineral name honours the late A. R. C. Selwyn, founding Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria. The particular specimen, a mottled green stone suitable for carving was recovered and found in Heathcote, Victoria, Australia. The rarity and qualities of this mineral attracted commercial mining, which was not successful, but traces of the mine shafts still exist today, and it is still highly valued by mineral collectors.Selwynit is considered to be one of the rare forms of rock because it is composed of phosphate minerals containing zirconium. This is an extremely rare combination found in nature. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.A fine grained rock composed of mainly of chromian muscovite (fuchsite) diaspore and corundum.geological specimen, geology, geology collection, burke museum, beechworth, mineralogy, heathcote, mineral collectors, selwynite, green rock, rock specimen -
Federation University Historical Collection
Scientific Instrument, Calderon's Stauroscope, c1900 (?)
The stauroscope is an instrument for studying characteristic properties of anisotropic mineral particles. Later petrografic microscopes incorporate the stauroscope feature. Calderon Stauroscope in a hinged timber box. An optical device resembling a microscope with a vertical axes. The composite tube is made of brass, and is adjustabbly attached to a splayed-leg base equipped with a traingula section pillar. Instrument and accessoried housed in a brown polished timber box stauroscope, scientific instrument, microscope -
Victorian Interpretive Projects Inc.
Photograph - Colour, Clare Gervasoni, Hepburn Bath House, 2004, 24/04/2012
This photograph was taken just before refurbishment and extension of the Hepburn Bathhouse. The bathhouse uses mineral water for therapeutic baths.Image of the brick bathhouse at Hepburn Springs before redevelopment. The bathhouse is in the Hepburn Springs Reserve.hepburn springs, mineral water, bath, -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book - catalogue, Charles Boyd, Museum for Geology, Mineralogy, Technology, Ballarat School of Mines, Ballaarat, 1882, 1882
The Ballarat School of Mines, Museum and Laboratories were open for inspection free in 1882, and an officer was ready to accompany and afford information to visitors. A brown soft covered book of 94 pages. It is a descriptive catalogue of the Minerals in the Museum of the Ballarat School of Mines by Ferdinand M. Krause, curator. Illustrations include a plan of the museum and a plan of the Ballarat school of Mines grounds and buildings. The book is indexed.ballarat school of mines, museum, krause, botanic garden, geology, oddie, james oddie, minerals, ferdinand krause, ballarat school of mines museum, ferdinand krause -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Book - AUSTRALIAN MINING HISTORY MONOGRAPHS, NUMBER 7, THE ROLE OF MINERALS SEPARATION LTD. IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FLOTATION PROCESS, c2000
Australian Mining History Monographs Number 7, The Role of Minerals Separation in the Development of the Flotation Process. Paper presented at the Australian Mining History Association meeting, Adelaide 5 July 2000. Publisher: Zlota, Strathfieldsaye, Victoria. 45 pages.Ralph W Birrellgold, goldfields, gold, mineral separation, mining history, australia, minerals separation, flotation process -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Document - CAROL HOLSWORTH COLLECTION: GEOLOGICAL REPORT BENDIGO GOLDFIELD BULLETIN 43
Four page document Geological Report Bendigo Goldfield, C.E. Willman and H.E. Wilkinson. Contents include: folds, cleavage, lineations, lineated quartz in laminated veins, faults, major and minor faults, joints, structural domains and relationship to mineralization.bendigo, mining, geological bulletin -
City of Ballarat Libraries
Photograph - Card Box Photographs, E. Rowlands Pty Ltd Soft Drink Factory 1916. From Citizens & Sports publication
The factory was situated at the corner of Dana and Doveton Streets. Huge advertising for Rowlands and Koomah Spa natural mineral water from Mt Kosciusko. e.r. rowlands, e.r. rowlands aerated waters, koomah spa, building, manufacturing, vehicle, dana street, doveton street south -
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum and Village
Container - Bottle, 1840s to 1870s
This small green bottle has been handmade by a glassblower and is the typical shape of a carbonated soda or mineral water bottle. It was made from 1840s-1870s. The bottle was found in the coastal waters of Victoria about 100 years from when it was made. It is part of the John Chance Collection. Glassblowers made bottles like this one by blowing air through a long pipe and into molten glass at the end of it. The shape of the glass would be blown out to fit into the shape of the cylindrical dip mould. Once it set, the glass was removed from the mould and the glassblower would continue using the pipe to create the neck and another ponty tool to push up and form the base. The bottle would be cracked off the end of the glassblower’s pipe and a blob of molten glass would be wrapped around the top of the neck and shaped to finish the lip of the bottle. The seal was usually a cork, held in place with a ball-wire fitting attached between the upper and lower parts of the neck finish. This style of handmade bottles usually had thick glass so that it could be heat-sterilised, then re-filled. The bottles would often have horizontal bubbles in the applied finish, caused by twisting the glass, and vertical bubbles and diagonal lines in the body from it being blown, and a pontil mark in the base where the ponty tool had been attached. Although the bottle is not linked to a particular shipwreck, it is recognised as being historically significant as an example of bottles imported for use in Colonial Victoria in the mid-to-late 1800s. The bottle is also significant as it was recovered by John Chance, a diver in Victoria’s coastal waters in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Items that come from several wrecks have since been donated to the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village’s museum collection by his family, illustrating this item’s level of historical value. Bottle; green glass, soda or mineral water style, handmade. Applied finish, blob double ring collar; upper is wide and rounded, lower is a narrow ring. Diagonal lines in glass on neck and shoulder. Low shoulder mould seam. Body is matt with ripples in glass, tapers inward towards base. Shoulder and neck are shiny. Push-up base with pontil mark, visible through glass. Marks on heel. Uneven base. Bubble on side and top of lip. Sediment on inside surfaces. Two score lines, one half way down body, one near base. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, shipwreck artefact, john chance, glass bottle, antique bottle, handmade, dip mould, mouth blown, pontil mark, 19th century bottle, collectable, soda bottle, mineral water bottle, green glass, blob finish, push-up base -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Porphyritic Rhyodacite
This specimen was recovered from the Nigretta Falls (previously named the Upper Wannon Falls), Victoria. The falls are fed by the Wannon River that has its head waters in the Grampians mountains. Approx. 10km upstream of the Wannon Falls, Nigretta is a multi-channel segmented cascade of smaller drops and bounces guided by patterns of joints in a much older (Devonian) rhyolitic volcanic rock. Both the Wannon and Nigretta Falls are iconic landscape features, entrenched in the history and identity of the region. These falls are particularly rare as they are the product of volcanic activity, which is unique in the context of the Volcanic Plain of Victoria. Waterfalls of this capacity are generally associated with the Uplands areas of Victoria, rather than the edges of the Volcanic Plain. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study. A solid, dark grey mineral specimen with pale terracotta coloured inclusions. Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. Rhyodacites form from rapid cooling of lava relatively rich in silica and low in alkali metal oxides.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY / R / S 55 FELSTONE PORPHYburke museum, beechworth, indigo shire, beechworth museum, geological, geological specimen, porphyritic rhyodacite, lava, nigretta falls, upper wannon falls, dacite, rhyolite, volcanic geology -
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Realia, Fossil's
Alan Tangey returned with them after working as a survey technician from Stawell area and given to children.Reputed to be Fossilised Eggs and 8 Pieces of wood, also 1 piece of Fossilsed Coral. Probably Fossilised Plant Roots Formed by Cementing Around Roots by minerals such as Calcium. Coral may have come from coastal survey work or holidays. fossils, children -
Walhalla Museum
Clements Tonic Bottle, Unknown, circa 1848 to 1950
Used in Victorian psychiatric hospital between 1848 and1950. Clements Tonic contained herbs, vitamins and minerals and was used to improve general well-being. This bottle is rectangular in shape with tapered corners, giving the bottle 8 flat sides and is made from brown glass. The name of the product is molded down the length of the bottle. This bottle always remains the property of CLEMENTE' TONIC Limited -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Geological specimen - Basalt
This specimen was recovered from Creswick in Victoria. Basalt is dark in colour, often black and has a fine grain. It is composed of plagioclase and pyroxene minerals and an igneous rock. This specimen is part of a larger collection of geological and mineral specimens collected from around Australia (and some parts of the world) and donated to the Burke Museum between 1868-1880. A large percentage of these specimens were collected in Victoria as part of the Geological Survey of Victoria that begun in 1852 (in response to the Gold Rush) to study and map the geology of Victoria. Collecting geological specimens was an important part of mapping and understanding the scientific makeup of the earth. Many of these specimens were sent to research and collecting organisations across Australia, including the Burke Museum, to educate and encourage further study.A cylindrical fine-grained piece of igneous rockburke museum, geological survey of victoria, geological specimen, geology -
Federation University Historical Collection
Letter - Correspondence, Miss B.E. Jacka, Secretary of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Correspondence on Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (Incorporated) Letterhead, 1949, 03/05/1949
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM) was founded in 1893 and provides services to professionals engaged in all facets of the global minerals sector. With a focus on providing leadership and opportunities to minerals industry professionals, the AusIMM delivers an ongoing program of professional development services to ensure our members are supported throughout their careers, enabling them to provide high-quality professional input to industry and the community. (http://www.ausimm.com.au/content/default.aspx?ID=94, Accessed 09 September 2015)Typed letter on the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy letterhead relating to the first Ordinary Meeting of the Institute. The letter is addressed to R.W. (Dick) Richards of the Ballarat School of Mines, and is signed by B.E. Jacka, Secretary of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.ausimm, australasian institute of mining and metallurgy, letterhead, r.w. richards, dick richards, b.e. jacka -
Federation University Historical Collection
Letter - Correspondence, Miss B.E. Jacka, Secretary of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Correspondence on Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Letterhead, 1958, 15/12/1958
The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (The AusIMM) was founded in 1893 and provides services to professionals engaged in all facets of the global minerals sector. With a focus on providing leadership and opportunities to minerals industry professionals, the AusIMM delivers an ongoing program of professional development services to ensure our members are supported throughout their careers, enabling them to provide high-quality professional input to industry and the community. (http://www.ausimm.com.au/content/default.aspx?ID=94, accessed 09/09/2015)Typed correspondence, on the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy letterhead, relating to a students' essay competition. The letter is signed by the institute Secretary B.E. Jacka.australasian institute of mining and metallurgy, ausimm, b.e. jacka -
Federation University Historical Collection
Book, Sir Lawrence Bragg, Crystal Structures of Minerals, 1965, 1965
William Lawrence Bragg was born in Adelaide in 1890. Lawrence was only fifteen years old when he started study at the University of Adelaide. In 1908 he graduated with a first-class honours degree in mathematics. He worked as a professor of physics at the University of Manchester in 1919-1938 and at Cambridge in 1938-54. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1915 with his father, Sir William Henry Bragg at the age of twenty-five "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". He died in Waldringfield, England, 1 July 1971. Red hardcovered book with black and white illustrations. At the top of title "The Crystalline State Vol. IV". 409pp [inkstamped name on front free endpaper]. The book discusses the Crystal structures of minerals, by Sir L. Bragg and G. F. Claringbull, with a chapter by W.H. Taylor.metallic crystal structures, sir lawrence bragg, g f claringbull, physics -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - STRUGNELL COLLECTION: HUSTLER'S LINE OF REEFS, BENDIGO, September 1913
Map, Hustler's Line of Reefs, Comet Mine, Transverse Section, Plate No.XXV (25). Bulletin No 33 Signed H.A.Whitelaw. Drawing shows the vertical shaft descending to over 1692 feet and appears to show samples of connecting horizontal shafts with their respective mineral contentsUnderground Survey Office, Bendigo.map, bendigo, comet mine -
Clunes Museum
Newspaper - NEWSPAPER CUTTING, AUSTRALIAN MINERALOGIST
.1 EXTRACT OF A PUBLICATION REPORTING ON THE WORKS OF THE PORT PHILLIP AND COLONIAL GOLD MINING COMPANY p.293 (Publication unknown) .2 EXTRACT FROM A JOURNAL RELATING TO THE MINERALS OF THE CLUNES GOLDFIELD p.47 Australian Mineralogist, volume 3, April-June, 1988local history, document, mining -
Greensborough Historical Society
Map, Australia. Department of Minerals and Energy, Melbourne, topographic map, 1970_
A topographic map of Victoria with Melbourne as the centre. Provisional edition showing contours in feet. International map of the world [scale] 1:1,000,000. Prepared by the Department of Minerals and Energy, Canberra in 1970.A pre-metric map, shows the Hume Highway travelling through towns such as Seymour and Benalla, now by-passed by the Hume Freeway.Map, printed in colour on one side.victoria - maps -
Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Map - STRUGNELL COLLECTION: UNDERGROUND SURVEY OF MINES, BENDIGO, 29-4-01
Map, Underground Survey of Mines, Bendigo.Eureka Extended Co., New Chum Line. Signed H.A.Whitelaw 29.4.01 Drawing shows mine shaft from 1871 feet to over 3030 feet deep and appears to show samples of connecting horizontal shafts with their respective mineral contents.A>S>Whitelawmap, bendigo, eureka extended co.