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Document - SOUTH DEBORAH MINE - NOTE ON THE SOUTH DEBORAH MINE
... Shaft Details of the South Deborah Mine... DOCUMENT Gold south deborah mine South Deborah Mine Shaft Details ...Handwritten note on the South Deborah Mine. Sill 846.3'. Depth of shaft 799 ft. bottom plat. On the back Shafts - Details.document, gold, south deborah mine, south deborah mine, shaft details of the south deborah mine -
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Letter - KANGAROO FLAT GOLD MINE COLLECTION:EXPLORATION PROGRAM FOR 26 HA MINING LEASE, BENDIGO
Fourteen page document. On front: 'an exploration program for a 26 ha mining lease applied for near the North Deborah Mine, Bendigo. Bendigo Mines N.L. c/- Cahills, Cahill Chambers, View Point, Bendigo, Victoria. Prepared by Bell, Cochrane & Associates Pty Ltd., Consulting Geologists, 24 Liddiard Street, Hawthorn, Victoria. Report No. 0539, September 24, 1982'. The lease would cover parts of the Deborah and Garden Gully lines of gold mines. The property includes the North Deborah mine workings and portions of the former adjoining leases to the north and south and the section of the Garden Gully line that extends from the Cosmopolitan shaft in the north nearly to the Great Southern shaft in the south. Mineralisation within the lease application on the Deborah line of reefs, Garden Gully line of reef.; the exploration objectives on the Deborah line and the Garden Gully line; the details of exploration program with surface drilling and underground exploration are discussed in the program report.bendigo, mining, bendigo mining n.l., bendigo mining n.l., central deborah gold mine, north deborah gold mine, cosmopolitan gold mine, exploration licence, exploration program, saddle reefs, spurs, reef lines. -
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Newspaper - CENTRAL DEBORAH GOLD MINE MINING FATALITY
Newspaper article and typed copy of same, detailing the fatal accident that occurred at the mine on the 22nd January 1953, in which Herbert Hunter of Kangaroo Flat was killed. ' Hunter was working at No 16 level at a depth of 1270 feet from the surface and about 500 feet south from the shaft when a large piece of stone , estimated to wrigh about one ton, broke away. The stone crushed Hunter, who was killed instantaneously' Bendigo Advertiser article dated Friday 23rd January, 1953.bendigo, mining, central deborah gold mine -
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Newspaper - PURDY COLLECTION: WILFRED WATSON ARTICLE
Newspaper article: 'Years in the Mines". Article details the life of an Eaglehawk man who spent 22 years working in Bendigo mines and who is celebrating his 80th birthday ( no date on article) Wilfred worked at the Unity Mine in Long Guly, when the Prince of Wales, visited it. He also worked at the Red White and Blue, Big Deborah and South Virginia (between 1920 and 1942) He stated worked as a shoveler and then learnt to bore holes and fire with explosives. At the South Virginia, there were three shifts working the shaft. Each shaft shift had two miners and one shoveller and the mine has 20 or 30 workers.bendigo, mining, wilfred watsobn