Four men rescued from McEvoy Mine, 1895.mcevoy mine, mining accident, men, miners, eldorado, el dorado

Typed notes titled 'The Story of El Dorado' taken from the Mining & Geological Journal, dated January 1938 by D. G. Swift. Notes typed by L. G. Schilling, 13/10/69. Notes mention the disappointments, difficulties with water and the ground and floods, As well as gold they also found large quantities of tin oxide and a large variety of gemstones. A powerful jet of water was used for the mining.document, gold, eldorado, eldorado, the story of el dorado, mining & geological journal january 1938, d g swift, the argus 19/10/1855, kneebone & company, wellington party, mcevoy mine, kneebone mine, tin oxide, gemstones, united eldorado company, mining registrar, ovens gold and tin mining, eldorado extended, perserverance, great extended gold and tin mining, wellington company, mr william dunstan, united ovens gold and tin, the warrior, try again company, mcevoy disaster, cock's pioneer electric gold and tin sluicing company, mr h falsoner, cock's pioneer gold and tin mines n l company, state electricity commission, hydraulic sluicing, gold dredge, cock's eldorado company, l g schilling

McEvoy Miners, c1895.Poster on wall, 'SPORTS' and '£170' only visible textminers, mining, mcevoy mine, men, beards, sports, el dorado, eldorado

Pink paper covered book by Stanley Hunter, Engineer in Charge of Boring Operations. Contents include tunnelling, deep sinking, the Chiltern Method, the Ballarat Method, Stawell, Ararat, Moyston, Raglan, Wimmera, Landsborough, Avoca, Ballarat West Leads, Berry-Moolort-Loddon Lead System, Clunes, Creswick, Bullarook Affluent, Corinella, Daylesford-Castlemaine Tributary, Majorca-Carisbrook tributary, Huntly, Coliban, Campaspe, Rutherglen., Smythesdale, Durham Lead, Tanjil, Evolution of Mining Machinery, size of claims, Definition of a Deep Lead, Discovery of Gold in Victoria, Geographical Position of Deep Leads, Water in Deep Leads, Methods of Deep Lead Mining, Cost of Deep Lead Mining, Stawell, Ararat, Moyston, Raglan, Wimmera, Landsborough, Avoca, Ballarat West, Berry, Springs Hill, Loddon Valley, Charlotte Plains, , Timor, Burn Creek, Huntly, Colinan, Goulburn, Ovens Valley, Chiltern, Indigo, Morrison's Lead, Plans include: geological Map of Stawell, ararat, Raglan and Landsborough; Kempson's Freehold Mine, Stawell; Geological Map of Beaufort, Avoca, Maryborough, Ballarat west, Berry-Moolort, Loddon, Creswick, Marong, &c; Cardigan Propriety Gold Mine; Working Miners United Gold Mine, Homebush; Hepburn Deep Lead Plan; Madame Berry West Mine; West Berry Consols Mine; Spring Hill and Central Leads; Berry Consols Extended Mine; Loddon Valley Goldfields; Chalk's No 3 Mine; Charlotte Plains Considated Mine; Duke United Mine; Geological Map of Bendigo, Huntley, Campaspe, Malmsbury, Kyneton, trentham, &c; Geological Map of Chiltern, Rutherglan, Eldorado, Beechworth, &c; Chiltern Valley Gold Mine; Wallace Chiltern Valley Consols Mine; great Southern and Chiltern Valley United Mine; great Northern extended Consols; Prentice and Southern deep Leads; Glenfine South Gold Mine; Geological map of Pitfield, Rokewood, Mt Mercer, Ballark, Meredith, &c.; McEvoy Mine; Dargo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mining, deep leads, squire, tools, gold panning, gold cradle, cradling, puddling, tubbing, mining shaft, shaft sinking, whip, horse whip, whim, horse whim, chalk's no. 1 mine, maryborough, mining cage, shaft, mining trucks, maryborough, washdirt, puddler, tunnelling, deep sinking, chiltern method of working, ballarat method of working, sampling washdirt. gravels, balmoral, mt william, stawell, moyston, great western, ararat, raglan, wimmera valley, landsborough, cardigan, haddon, beaufort, waterloo, avoca, lamplough, caralulup, ballarat west, ballarat, smythesdale, glenfine, illabarook, durham lead, morrison's lead, bullengarook, berry-moolort-loddon system, clunes, creswick, spring hill, bullarook, castlemaine - daylesford, majorca, carisbrook, timor, burnt creek tributary, tarnagulla, marong, rheola, inglewood, huntly, coliban, campaspe, goulburn lead system, ovens valley system, mitta mitta, kiewa valley, tarago, tanjil, moondarra, bogong, dargo high plains

Four page booklet describing some of the mines and mining techniques in the El Dorado district. The main two miines mentioned are the 'McEvoy' and the 'Cocks Pioneer' mines. The booklet was produced by the North Eastern Historical Society in 1968, Compiled by Colin AngusNorth Eastern Historical Societygold, goldfields, el dorado, gold mining, el dorado, cocks pioneer, mcevoy