Three gold covered auction catalogues with black printing for Australia's First (Believed to be World's First) Gold Nugget Auction held in the Memorial Hall, Pall Mall, Bendigo on the 24th May, 1980. Catalogues are made of card and are tri-fold. On the front is a black sketch of Bendigo Historic Post Office. The inside which is white are the Conditions of Sale, the centre has the List of Nuggets which includes Lot No., No. of Nuggets and Approx. Lot Wt. in Grains. Under this are the Ingots which includes the Lot No. and Approx. Weight in Grains. Some notes are underneath. On the right fold is A History of Gold Discovery in Victoria and Large Nugget finds in the Area. Also mentioned are the Welcome Stranger Nugget, The Blanche Barkly Nugget and the Robins Nugget. On the inside gold side is A History of 3 D's Gold Mine N.L. and some information about Nuggets. On the back is Curnows name and a Reproduction of Curnows original Letterhead circa 1900.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - gold nugget auction, 3d's gold mine n.l., bendigo advertiser & clearads, mines department, welcome stranger nugget, red hill company's mine, blanche barkly nugget, precious nugget, ah chang, desmond robins, arthur robins, mining lease 452, mr a sexauer, robins nugget, gold nugget casino las vegas, bolton bros pty ltd, bluey robins, doug cahill, dick sandner, department of minerals and energy, national bank of australasia ltd, commonwealth development bank daryl mcclure, e j dunn, department of mines, curnows (bendigo), j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett, fred dyett

Three overhead transparencies used in presentation on Bendigo mining : a. Colour coded in green and red to show the Bendigo urban area with the limit of the Bendigo goldfield shown. Written on the transparency in b lack 'Limit of Bendigo Goldfield which produced 17 million oz. of hard rock gold and sourced 5 million oz. of alluvial gold.' b. Printed in black, showing mining leases and anticlines with syncline in between. Approx. 300 metres printed across top of diagram. c. Perspective vjew of reef lines Nell Gwynne, New Chum and Sheepshead. Diagram tinted in colours. Written on transparency: Perspective View, Schematic 3D block diagram showing historically mined shallow ribbons and potential mineralised ribbons to 1500 metres for part of the Bendigo Goldfield. bendigo mining n.l., bendigo, mining, gold, bendigo goldfield, urban area, mineralised, nell gwynne reef, new chum reef, sheepshead reef