This image was taken at the conclusion of a special eight week "Crash course" in mining, requested by Eastern Reefs. It was used in the Ballarat School of Mines Review, 1988, page 7.Black and white image of three men standing behind a trolley in a mine tunnel showing supporting beams (thought to be Sovereign Hill) They are from left to right Ernie Terrill (Ballarat CES), Raymond Collins (Ballarat School of Mines Mining Student) and Malcolm Vallance (Ballarat School of Mines Special Projects Manager).ballarat school of mines, mines, mining, mining trolley, mine truck, mining railway, malcolm vallance, mal vallance, raymond collins, ernie terrill, eastern reefs, sovereign hill, mining education

Great Eastern & Birds Reef N. L. Syndicate to Miss G. Alice Jones. Pink paper dated Nov 3 1933. Re Defaulting Members. Cost £1.1.0. "R693 delivered 3/7/34" written in the top left corner.miss g. alice jones - solicitor - account, great eastern & birds reef n l syndicte, mr leeds mccoll rankin & stanistreet

A plan of the underground working of the New Australasian Mine at Creswick, showing Wheeler's Bridge Road, a transverse section on the West Main Reef Drive and Line AB. It als shows the locations of the Red streak or Australasian Gutter, Reef wash, Eastern Wash, Australasian and Eaglehawk Shaft and prospecting drives.mining, plans, cgt, creswick, new australasian company, wheeler's bridge, red streak gutter, australasian gutter, reef wash, eastern wash, australiasian shaft, eaglehawk shaft

Plan of the Victoria Reef Gold Mines Company, Bendigo showing the Eastern Victoria Reef, Victoria Reef and the Western Victoria Reef. Streets, gullies and leases drawn in. Some amounts of money and names have been written on the page. Signed by H. B. Nicholas. Locations of Ballerstedt's, Luffsman's, Wittscheibe's, Midway Co and Rae's engines are shown. Ironbark, Derwent, Providence and Long Gullies are shown. Also Mount Korong Road. Leases mentioned are: Jackson, Burrows, Wybarndt, Ballerstedt, Luffsman, Roberts, Ashley, Grant, Troy, Tezeau, Woodward, Croath, Taylor, Cranshaw, Gou?d & Co, Midway, Wittscheibe, Specimen Hill Co, Endeavour, Albert Co, Ballerstedt & Son, Hy? Co, and Wheadon.document, gold, victoria hill, plan of the victoria reef gold mines company, h b nicholas, spiers, jackson, burrows, wybarndt, ballerstedt, luffsman, roberts, ashley, grant, troy, tezeau, woodward, croath, taylor, cranshaw, gou?d & co, midway, wittscheibe, specimen hill co, endeavour, albert co, ballerstedt & son, hy? co, and wheadon

Document: McColl, Rankin & Stanistreet , 7 page document, typed, prepared by Ford Aspinwall & DeGruchy, Solicitors, Melbourne. Memorandum of agreement between Great Eastern and Birds Reef No Liability syndicate and New Don No Liability. Signed under common seal of New Don James Barclay and Geo. Kingsley ( director ) and Stanistreet ( legal manager ) Also asigned by Jack Reginald Ingram, Thomas Watson Haynes and Henry George De Gruchy.organization, business, new don no liability, mccoll, rankin & stanistreet , great eastern and birds reef no liability syndicate, new don no liability, bendigo, gold, goldmining, lease

Photocopy of a Plan of the Victoria Reef Gold Mines Company, Bendigo. Shaded area is the Victoria Reef Gold Mines Company Lease No. 2 and Lease No. 3. The gullies are named Happy Valley, Long, Derwent, Providence and Ironbark Gullies. The reefs are: Western Victoria, Victoria, Eastern Victoria and Prince Albert Reef. Between the Eastern Victoria Reef and the Prince Albert Reef is the White Lead. Mount Korong Road is at the bottom of the plan. Other Leaseholders are: Burrows, Wybrant, Ballerstedt, Jackson,Roberts & Co, Ashley, Grant, ?rpe, ?eau, Woodward, Coath, Taylor, Cranshaw, Roberts, Gould & Co, Midway, Witscheibe, Endeavour Co, Albert Co, Ballerstedt & Son, Late Iron Bark Quartz Mining Co, McDougall, Specimen Hill Co, Hygrect?, Wheadon, Evans and Bannerman. Signed by H. B. Nicholas. Location of Ballerstedt, Luffsman, Midway Co, Witscheibe and Rae & Co engine locations. Hills are shown as hatch shading. Written at the bottom left ocrner is: Accompanying prospectus issued in Nov. 1859. Signed H.B. Nicholas.plan, bendigo, victoria reef gold mines company, victoria reef gold mines company bendigo - plan, h b nicholas, burrows, wybrant, ballerstedt, jackson, roberts & co, ashley, grant, ?rpe, ?eau, woodward, coath, taylor, cra-shaw, roberts, gou-d & co, midway, witscheibe, endeavour co, albert co, ballerstedt & son, late iron bark quartz mining co, mcdougall, specimen hill co, hyo?, wheadon, evans, bannerman.

Two plans .1) Plan of the Ballarat Goldfields showing leads, rivers, streets and topography. Quartz reefs include: Yorkshire, Try Again, Promised Land, Western Slates, Norwegian, Robert's Lode, Finn's, Band and albion, Rothschild, Old Post Office, Queen Lode. Leads include: Navy jacks, Gays, Canadian, Prince Regent, Sailors Gully, White Horse, Little White Horse, Milkmans, Nightingale, Golden Point, Gravel Pits. Scale is 8 Chains to 1 inch .2) Plan showing lines of quartz reefs, alluvial workings and leads, White Horse Range, Ballarat. Leads include White Horse LEad, Little White Horse Lead, One Eye Gully, Terrible Lead, Sailor's Gully, Canadian Lead, Prince Regent Gully, Canadian Lead, Cavs Lead, Navy jacks Lead, Eureka Lead, Old Gravel Pits Lead, Gravel Pits Lead, Nightingale Lead, Malakoff Lead, Milkmans Lead, Redan Lead, Woolshed Lead, Jacksons Lead, Winters Lead, SCtochman's Lead, Canadian Lead. Reefs include: Promised Land, Daniash, Sir Garnet Wolsley, Norwegian, Rothschile, Band and Albion, Finns, Llanberis, Roberts Lode, Tynworths and Black Hill, Oregan, Yorkshire, Try Again, Yorkshire, Post Office, Clarke's, Western Slates, Black Slate, Danks Slates, Eastern Slates, Queen's Lode, Fire Brigade. Mines include Red Streak, New Chum, Tinworths, Woah Hawp, Normanby, Speedwell, Llanberris Extended, Llanberis, Last Chance, Major, Countess, Pioneer and a number of batteries along Main Road Hills include: Mount Clear, Pennyweight Hill, Sovereign Hillballarat, plan, white horse range, white horse, goldfields, mines, reefs, indicators, leigh river, cgt, tinworth, mining

Two page handwritten document titled 'Victoria Hill Mines, Dickers M.R. 23.11.1861. Wittschiebe and Co. Claim. Next north to No. 2, Midway Company' Transcribed by Albert Richardson. Extract from text: 'There are reefs passing through this ground at small intervals in every part of this claim, they all dip north. The mass of leaders struck in No. 4 (shaft) yielded, on an average about 1 1/2 ounces to the ton to the amount, in all, of about 12,000 pounds. From the eastern Victoria, the present proprietors extracted in nine months 55,000 pounds worth of gold.' Owners of mine. Messrs A. Witrtschiebe, A. Sagasser, F. Meison, A. Urban, H. Koch, C. Killian and A. Rudolf. Document details the claim, the shafts sunk, their depth, issues re workings and gold found.Albert Richardsonbendigo, mining, wittschiebe & co. claim

Reminiscences of Mr Jack Hattam - 38 pp. Oral History assignment by Phyllis Smithson 1982. Introduction: ''This paper is a transcript of a taped interview with Mr Jack Hattam with annotations to augment his comments by Phyllis Smithson. Mr Hattam did not know a lot about his forebears so I have endeavoured to recreate some of the background and conditions his grandparents and relations would have encountered''. Bibliography and family tree.Jack Hattamperson, individual, jack hattam, st just point, long gully, voictorian quarts mining company, white hills cemetry, mr henry hattam mayor of bendigo, midway company, victoria reef, energetic ompany, bird's reef company, great eastern company, (sedgewick), hercules company, frank cusack, bendigo creek, bendigo valley, grub-staking, hopetoun street, john and ellen o'connell, hunters brewery.

The steamship, SS Australia, was built in Greenock, Scotland in 1892, for the P & O Steam Navigation Company. Australia was considered to be one of the most luxurious vessels afloat and she held the speed record from England to Australia at the time. On 21st June 1904, due to pilot error, the Australia hit the notorious Corsair Rock, part of the Point Nepean Reef, on the eastern side of Port Philip heads, opening a gaping 5 meter hole along her keel. Passengers and some of the crew were rescued by craft sent from Queenscliff.Relic from a significant wreck on Corsair Rock at Point NepeanMetal letter A mounted on timber board in front with salvage account on the backAccount of salvage of artefactsign, ships name, ss australia

Bethanga was established as a result of the discovery of gold. Gold was first reported in the Bethanga area in 1852. Before 1876 gold mining in the Bethanga district occurred to the north of the town and was known as the 'Talgarno diggings'. Reports of alluvial gold date back to 1852. Early gold fields were worked at Ruby Creek, Gold Creek and Jarvis Creek. The opening of the Bethanga goldfields began with the discovery of a gold-bearing quartz reef on New Year’s Day 1876. The 'Gift' mine site is located southeast of Kurrajong Gap lookout to the west of Bethanga township. The Great Eastern Copper Smelting Works was opened in 1878. Due to the nature of the gold-bearing quartz reef, the gold was difficult to extract, and the discovery of copper led to a change in focus. It was not until the early 1890s that an efficient technique for extracting the gold from the ore was discovered, and once again gold became the focus, with copper as a by-product. Bethanga was removed from the official list of goldfields in 1912, however some mining activity has taken place since.This image reflects an important time in the development of Bethanga and Northeast Victoria.A large mounted and framed image of horse teams and their owners hauling a large boiler to the gold mine near Bethanga, Victoria. On label beneath image: "North-eastern "Gold Days"/ Combined teams hauling a boiler to Bethanga Mines, 1900. Teamsters - Mr. G. Pearce, W. Chapple, G, Bannon." Donated by Ron Saunders and Barbara Cadman"bethanga, gold mining northeast victoria, gold mining bethanga, bethanga history

Newspaper article titled' Goldfields' sketchbook. Article on book release ' Bendigo and Eastern Goldfields Sketchbook with Drawings by Unk White and text by John Bechervaise, first published 1970, 64 pages, hardback edition, $1.95. Extract from article ' our poppet-head sketch is of the Deborah superstructure, rising above a shaft 2017 feet deep, the site on Quarry Hill being easily accessible. The mine yielded 52,000 ounces of gold and in 1954 was one of the last three mines all on the Deborah line of reef, to close down'Bendigo Advertiser July 23rd 1970.bendigo, mining, gold discovery, 'bendigo advertiser

Entrance gates to “The Sycamores” Driveway. A show place on Concongella from mid 1860's. "The Sychmores" where William Osmand lived. Osmand's "Sycamores" was in a secluded block of the eastern side of the creek along which was planted pine and cypress trees. He built a comfortable house and line the carriage way with Sycamores. Osmand was on the of the men who made money in the Stawell reefs mines. "The Sycamores" has been owned by the West family since c 1920. Black & white photograph (2 copies) of an entrance gateway with an avenue of deciduous trees.concongella

Three page document. Front page, extracts from F. Chamber's Report on Tambour Major Shaft, includes reference to Allingham and Moore's shaft and Specimen Hill Reservoir. Early workings on the Christmas Reef line, Specimen Hill or Tambour Major, are listed in a table format, example - Great Western Gold Mining and Crushing Coy, 1855 Fajeon and Coy, 1859, tunnel in hillside. Specimen Hill Coy 1861 Indefatigable 1862, 64, 67 - 1881 Agamemnon 1862-1863 - 1881 Invincible Co. 1865 - 1867 Old Bendigo Tribute 140 ft 1870 Great Eastern Co 1870 - 1881 Great Eastern Tribute Co. Bismark Co, No. 1 North 150 ft 1870 - 1881 Bismark No. 2 Tribute 212 ft Allingham and Moore 338 ft 1872 Specimen Hill United 450 ft 1881 Great Western United (amalgamation of Old Bendigo, Invincible, Gt. Eastern and Bismark Coys) 400 ft 1882 Tambour Major 847 feet 1881 - 1890 Christmas Reef Co. 200 ft. 1895 - 1897 Open Cutsbendigo, mining, christmas reef gold mining

Handwritten page and carbon copy of notes on the Victoria Quartz Mine and Rae's Open Cut.document, gold, victoria quartz, victoria quartz, notes on the victoria quartz & rae's open cut, victoria reef company, wm rae, eastern victoria reef

BHS CollectionTyped carbon copy and typed copy of General notes on the lines East of the Hustlers. Lines mentioned are: Hustler's, New Chum, Lightning Hill, Tysons, Slaughteryard, Isabella Mine, Ironstone Hill Reef, Nicholson Reef, on which a mine owned by a man named Stevenson mined a fair amount of gold. Ref. Anon; 1899. Spec. Ed. Aust. Min. Stand. June 1st 1899: p 61. Notes prepared by Albert Richardson.mining, parish map, tyson's line, eastern lines, hustler's, new chum, slaughteryard line, lightning hill, tyson's, isabella mine, ironstone hill reef, nicholson reef, mr stevenson, aust min stand 1 june 1899

Nicholas John Bolle was born in Dorstadt, Germany in 1836 to parents Heinrich (Johannes Heinrich Wilhelm) and Friederike Hartmann (Anne Marie Friedericke). Around the age of 20 he immigrated to Australia and made his way, most likely on foot, 150km in a northerly direction to the Bendigo goldfields. In March 1863 Nicholas registered his first mining claim, naming it Bolle’s Reef. Having worked this reef until it no longer paid, he went on a prospecting tour of the area and found another gold reef towards Elysian Flat, staked a claim and registered it under the name of his beloved wife ‘Rosanna’. Sadly, as was often the case, the cost of hiring men to get the gold out of the ground, and removing it from the clay and quartz, outweighed the amount of profit he was making from his discoveries. In November 1863 while living and working at Old Tom Gully, Nicholas appeared in the Government Gazette as insolvent. Nicholas continued to struggle on, scoping out the surrounding area in the Whipstick Forest, and having some little success and by 1869 he was given a government reward of 25 pounds for discovering a new area of gold in the Whipstick. The Government Gazette records this reward – 'for the discovery of the Whipstick, 25 pounds' (Government Gazette 1869) By 1872 Nicholas had established a quartz crushing plant at his mine in Old Tom Gully, (the Old Tom mine) a remote place in the middle of the Whipstick. Mining was a dangerous business, and in 1875 Nicholas was called as a witness in a coroner’s inquest into the death of a John Bashton who was accidentally killed in a mining accident at nearby Easter Claim in December. In 1881, he was again called to give evidence when one of his employees Mr Thomas Garrett was killed while working at his claim at Old Tom Reef. So we are fortunate to have Nicholas describing his day’s work in his own words. Reference: Michelle Dennis Family History http://www.michelledennis.com.au/?page_id=1067) The Old Tom Mine site is situated between Old Tom Road, Scotsman Road, Eaglehawk-Neilborough Road and an unnamed road, Whipstick VIC 3556. The Marong Heritage Study, Mining Sites ( City of Greater Bendigo) describes the former mine site as follows: '40 metre-long mullock heap with one dumping line running north from a filled shaft. The heap has been partially quarried. 20 metres south is a scatter of red hand-made bricks and rough concrete rubble. Further south there are smaller mullock dumps and a line of shallow reef workings Surface workings 30 metres west of the mullock dump, running north, is a line of small mullock paddocks, terminating in a shallow open cut. On the same line to the south, in an area north and west of the most southerly section of reef workings there is an area of hydraulic sluicing. West of the cyanide works and along Scotchman Gully there are patches of shallow alluvial workings. Battery site On the eastern side of the open-cut is a small mullock paddock, below which is a spread of hand-made red bricks and fire bricks. Near this rubble is a dry dam, with traces of battery sand nearby. Puddling machine site 10 metres north of the water race is the outline of a 20 foot diameter puddling machine. The central mound retains its wooden post and fragments of timber side-boarding are still present in the puddling trench. Water was fed to the puddling machine from the race by a pipe, now largely buried. The dumps are weathered and partially quarried, but the puddling machine is in good con 40 metre-long mullock heap with one dumping line running north from a filled shaft. The heap has been partially quarried. 20 metres south is a scatter of red hand-made bricks and rough concrete rubble. Further south there are smaller mullock dumps and a line of shallow reef workings Surface workings 30 metres west of the mullock dump, running north, is a line of small mullock paddocks, terminating in a shallow open cut. On the same line to the south, in an area north and west of the most southerly section of reef workings there is an area of hydraulic sluicing. West of the cyanide works and along Scotchman Gully there are patches of shallow alluvial workings'. Reference: https://www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/explore-location/553/old-tom-mine/ Document. Gold Sale notes for Nicholas Bolle. Papers pinned together covering the years 1868 - 1887 being statement of gold melted and assayed for Nicholas Bolle from the Eaglehawk branch of the Bank of Victoria. A few of the papers are from the Bank of New South Wales - Eaglehawk Branch, Bank of Australasia, Bank of Australasia Gold Office. The earliest statement dated 3 Jul 1868 is for Messrs Harrison & Bashton. Other early ones are for Derbyshire Reef. The Bank of Victoria cards mention R. H. Andrews, Agent on the back. The Bank of Australasia Gold Office statement contains an ink picture of the building on the back.gold sale notes for nicholas bolle, bank of victoria - eaglehawk branch, bank of new south wales, bank of australasia, bank of australasia gold office, messrs harrison & bashton, derbyshire reef, r. h. andrews