Handwritten copy of mining accident. Wire Ropes in Mines. Accident at Gt. Northern - Bdg'n 8/6/1899 Page 14. Mining Accident at Windmill Hill. Geo. Watson of Cal. Gully was hauling a truck of dirt, and whilst engine was in motion, he started to wipe the crank with a piece of waste. His arm got caught between the conrod & crank and was badly crushed. He managed to free it and stop the engine before the cage got to the wheels. He was taken to hospital. Bones fractured in one or two places. Document from Albert Richardson Collection of mining history. Document from Albert Richardson Collection of mining history.document, gold, windmill hill, windmill hill, mining accident at windmill hill, gt northern, bdg'n 8/6/1899 page 14, geo watson, albert richardson

The photograph printed on this postcard comes from the collection of the Mitchell Library in Sydney. It is sepia in tone and depicts seven men standing and sitting around a mine shaft in the Beechworth region. The photograph has been dated to approximately 1872. This period in history post-dates the Victorian gold rushes which occurred 1852-1853 in Ballarat, Bendigo and Beechworth. During this period, in the 1870s, the surface alluvial gold had been discovered and removed from location. Therefore, in order to reach the deeper and less accessible alluvial gold, diggers began to dig shafts into the earth. These shafts sunk below the ground level by 20 to 30 feet and required timber structures around the entrance and winches to bring the paydirt to the top. The top of this wooden structure is visible behind the man standing in the upper right of the image. This type of mining was highly dangerous as mines often caved in which injured the minors and often resulted in death. Thus, following this period, in the early 1900s, miners opted instead for hydrolic slucing which cut away the earth without the devastating consequences of a mine cave in. This particular group of miners appear to have been unable to afford a horse (then worth around 50 pounds) which were generally used at mines like this to help pull buckets attached to ropes up and down the mine. Instead, this group brought the buckets up and down by windlass. The windlass was a wooden structure mounted over the mining shaft and fitted with a hand-cranked winch which enabled the bucket attached to the rope to be brought up and down.Gold was first discovered in Beechworth in Spring and Reid's Creek in the summer of 1852-1853. At its popularity, this region had approximately 8000 people on the gold fields searching for gold on the banks of these creeks. These periods did not require the use of heavy machinery or the digging of deep mining shafts like the one depicted in this image. Therefore, this image has important connotations for the technologies associated with mining during the approximated 1870s when gold was harder to access. This is a later period in gold history which does not fit into the "gold rush" period. Instead, it occurred after the surface gold had disappeared and therefore, is essential for researchers who are investigating the mining techniques and structures used to reach the alluvial gold which was located deeper under ground in the 1870s. This period predates the use of big heavy machinery used to mine in the 1900s which include dredges. Images such as this one can also impart essential information as to the wardrobe and fashion of men during this period. It also imparts knowledge about the landscape of Beechworth which is useful for people researching the environment and impact of gold mining in the north-east region of Victoria. In addition, since this image is a postcard reproduction of an early Australian image which may date to approximately 1990 it can impart knowledge as to the interests of people during this time period when there may have been an increase into Australian history.A sepia tone facsimile of an early Australian photograph (circa 1872) printed as a postcard.Obverse: BEECHWORTH / Victoria, Australia / Reverse: GM 2 3275 / CORRESPONDENCE / AUSTRALIAN / YESTERYEAR / CARDS / ADDRESS / Published by George Symons (057) 65 3240 / THE MINEHEAD C. 1872 / The easily gleaned gold of the early fields did / not last very long. In order to reach less / accessible alluvial gold diggers began sinking shafts as much as twenty to thirty feet down / and the mines required timbering and winches / to bring the paydirt to the top. / This syndicate has been unable to afford the / luxury of a horse (about 50 pounds) and so everything / must go up and down by windlass and rawhide / bucket. / Photo: Mitchell Library, Sydney / A sepia tone facsimile of / an early Australian photographmining album, gold mine, beechworth, burke museum, mine shaft, postcard, australian yesteryear cards, george symons, the minehead, gold fields, alluvial gold, early australia, c.1872, 1872, gold diggers, north east victoria

The 1st edition of this famous work, giving an excellent account of the machinery used in late 19th century metal mining in the UK and overseas is very rare. It covers a wide range of equipment - pumps, steam engines, drills, winding engines, stamps & concentration mills, aerial ropeways, tramways and early uses of electricity etc. Brown hard cloth covered book. xvi 564 pages with additional advertisements, with over 300 illustrations and drawings, some fold out. Chapters include Water as a motive power, Wind engines and ventilating machinery, Steam boilers/engines and oil engines, hoisting machinery, draining of Mines, pumping engines, rock drilling machinery, boring machinery, concentration machinery, sizing and classifications trommels, joggers and jigging, fine concentration, milling of gold ores, milling of silver ores, amalgamation plates and machinery, dry and roasting machinery, chlorination and cyandide processes for the extraction of gold, electricity as a motive power for mining, electric lighting and blasting, aerial wire ropeways, transport by rail and road. There a a number of lovely line illustrations in the book including: Poncelot's undershot waterwheel; Fromont furnace;Victor turbine; Pelton waterwheel; Root's positive blower;Cross section and front elevation of Lancashire boiler; Robey's Compound Mill Engine; Portable Winding Plant; Iron Pit Head Gear ; Loading Arrangement in an Incline Shaft; kibble; Worthington Pump; California Pump; Scram's Air Compressor; Rock drill Bits; Special Sharpening tools; Boring tools;Rotating Picking table; Ore Feeder; roller crusher; stamp battery; round buddle; slime table; vanner; amalgamating plant; belt elevator;roasting furnace;splicing wire rope; capel; tipping waggon;mining, cornish pump, linkenbach table, water wheel, ventilation, oil engine, california, america, water, steam boilers, steam engines, oil engines, pumpimg, rock drilling, boring, jiggers, milling, silver, gold, drying and roasting, chlorination, cyaniding, lead, zinc, copper, electricity, electric lighting, wire ropes, transport, wind engine, poppet head

George McCulloch was an inspector of machinery for the Western Australia Department of Mines. Brown hard covered book of 452 pages including illustrations and index. Contents include Design; Tail ropes; Winding from Great Depths; Colliery Winding; Electric Winding; Steam engine details, Drims; brakes; Clutches; Safety Devices; Winding ropes; Cages; Skips; Cage Safety Gear, Safety Cages; Cage Guides; Head gearsmining, winding, engines, steam engines, safety devices, winding ropes, cages, safety cages

J.H. Merivale was a prodfessor of mining in the Durham College of Science, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. H.F. Bulman was an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a member of the federated Institution of Mining Engineers. Green hard covered book of 188 pages. mining, brook, mining students, mathematics, newcastle coal field, ropes, chains, seams, dykes, dams, timber measure, timber costing, mines act, rules, explosives act, horses, windmills, horse power, boilers explosions, compressed air, wire ropes, steam, water power, electricity, sinking, winding, draining, hauling, chemistry, gases, ventilation, boring, formulae

This book was specially compiled and prepared for the convenient use of mine officials, mining engineers, and students preparing themselves for certificates of competency as mine inspectors or mine foremen.Dark, hard covered book. Contents include arithmetic, weights and measures, Cylinders, Geometry, Mensuration, Surveying, strength and Weight of Materials, wire ropes, chains, Colliery management, precious metals, ventilation, hydrostatics, hydraulics, mine railways, Friction of mine cars, colliery machinery, steam raising, rules for engine drivers, faults, electricity, glossary of Mining terms.mining, coal, metal, colliery, definitions, brook, advertisements

Blue soft covered book.duncan gillies, mining, safety cages, timbering in mines, ballarat minin district, statistics, chinese, fossil plants, wolf's miners' safety lamp, thorneburry safety lamp, wood's point, clunes, chiltern valley, underground survey, wire ropes, ballarat, warrenheip, dowling forest

Black and white photograph, looking south from New Chum Hill. 1873. The Golden Square Methodist Church can be seen in the background. The rich Lazarus New Chum Mine in foreground. Note Flat Manilla Ropes. The New Chum - Bonatti - Menzies and Ellesmere Claims in background.place, mining site, new chum

Five page handwritten document with: 1. details of the Carshalton line of reef and a photocopied extract from an book (not referenced) with information about the Carshalton Gold Mining Company NL 2. Some facts and figures and comments ( about Bendigo mines generally) topics include deep shafts, shafts made safe, men employed on field, cost of firewood, winding ropes - flat and round, size of mining shafts, weekly wages, 'years of pride' and 'years of destruction'. Signed by Albert Richardson, 29 Harrison Street, Bendigo.March 1968.bendigo, mining, carshalton reef line

Hand written notes on plain cream paper for auction lots giving description and price for auction on 24th March 1927. Lots were various pieces of mine equipment including poppet legs, engine, steel, air compressor, winch and wire ropes. Sale by order of the Directors by Alex Bell & Co, Ballarat.mine, gold, carlisle, carlisle gold mine, alex bell & co., auction lots

Hand written notes on the fire at the Garden Gully United Mine 29/3/1911. Two reports from the Bendigo Advertiser 29 and 30 March 1911. First report battery watchman John Davey saw nothing unusual, then later saw the reflection of fire in the engine house. Second report mentions hose stretched over Mt Korong Rd being run over by Chinese market gardeners and others making the leaky hose leak all the more. Cages only travelled a short distance after the ropes broke. Unemployment after air compressors ruined by the fire. Written on the back: Some Facts and Figures - The Bendigo Goldfield has had its good and bad years. Yields ranged from 475, 857 ozs in 1852 and 451,588 ozs in 1856 to 168,990 ozs in 1878 and 148,700 -mine, gold, garden gully united mine, garden gully united mine, garden gully united fire, bendigo advertiser 29-30/3/1911, john davey

NORM HARRIS COLLECTION Practical Mining ( Arithmetic Applied To Mine Work - with Miners' Business Directory ) Book - - small hard - covered brown (pocket companion ) book by W Wilsons and published by Mason , Firth & McCutcheon , Printers Melbourne. In 1894.Binding is damaged .The inside page has an advert for Mining Ropes .Page A ,title- Practical Mining comprising easy notes , various formulae , rules and tables for Mining managers , Students etc.W Wilsonsbook, bendigo

Slide. New Hustlers poppet head, chimney stack and shed. Metal chimney stack supported by guy ropes.mine, gold, new hustlers, bendigo mines-jack hattam collection.

Information from donor: "The orange booklet was printed mid-to-late 1930’s or early 40’s by my father Curtis Drenen, and written by my grandfather Thomas Drenen. The original publication would have been handset by Thomas’s employees as he had a keen interest in the mines financially. This booklet has been set and cast in hot metal on a linotype machine my father purchased after taking over the Rutherglen “Sun” and passing of Thomas in July 1932. This booklet was one of half a dozen I put together when I found some flat sheets of 8 page sections stored away in a cupboard. I folded, collated the sections, stapled and trimmed these Sheets during my time at the “Sun” from 1951 to1969. Where the rest are I have no idea. I wrote the final paragraph on Page 44 from a copy provided be my mother." Thomas Drenen was Proprietor and Editor of The Rutherglen "Sun," from 1886 to 1932. The articles in the book were first published in 1904.Small book of 44 pages, stapled, with cover of orange heavy paper.On cover: "Robert Drenen, 11 Hinchley St., Wangaratta" At bottom of last page, the last line "In suspending work the mine was not dismantled, except taking the ropes" is followed by handwritten lines: "down. However no further was done with the mine and the plant and machinery was later sold to Mr S.P. Gollings and eventually dismantled. THE END."drenen family, gold mining

Two red covered auction catalogues for an auction held at the Gold Mine, Clunes on 15 March, 1941. Sale comprised of Winches, boilers, pumps, wire ropes, piping, rails, poppet legs, cages, tanks, trucks and tools, etc. Contains descriptions of the larger machinery. J. H. Curnow & Son were the auctioneers.business, auctioneers, j h curnow & son pty ltd, ian dyett collection - auction catalogue - gold mines - clunes, clunes goldfields (1931) limited, j h curnow & son, j l jamieson, the cambridge press

Made of canvas and bamboo slats with hemp ropes, adjustable canvas straps and metal buckles and rings, the rescue stretcher was used for carrying an injured person. According to the Powerhouse Museum, the stretcher and was ‘designed to support and carry an injured person in circumstances where the person has to be lifted vertically’. Known as the ‘Neil Robertson stretcher’, it was developed in the early 1900s by John Neil Robertson as a lightweight rescue device and was modelled on Japanese bamboo litters. An identical stretcher is held in Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and is thought to date between c.1967 and 1999. The museum’s statement of significance for the unique stretcher elaborates on its cultural values: The canvas is wrapped around the patient and secured with strong canvas straps. A lifting rope is attached to a ring above the patient's head, while a guideline is tied near the ankles and used to stop the stretcher swaying as it is hoisted up. This style of stretcher was specifically designed for use on ships, where casualties might have to be lifted from engine-room spaces, holds and other compartments with access hatches too small for ordinary stretchers. The original name of the Neil Robertson stretcher was 'Hammock for hoisting wounded men from stokeholds and for use in ships whose ash hoists are 2 ft. 6 in. diameter'. Since those times the Neil Robertson stretcher has also been used in factories and mines and for other emergency rescue situations. It is still possible to buy this type of stretcher although the slats are now more likely to be made of wood. The example in the Powerhouse collection was amongst several items of obsolete first aid and rescue equipment donated by the electricity generation company Delta Electricity. It would have been used - or at least been on stand-by - at the company's Munmorah Power Station or the associated coal mine on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Industrial sites and mines are extremely dangerous work places. Throughout the 20th century to the present there has been a drive, especially in developed countries like Australia, to improve workplace safety. Measures taken to reduce injuries and deaths have included safer industrial equipment, safer work practices, staff training, and the ready availability of accident and emergency equipment.It was also used throughout WWI and WWII. There are two other examples of the stretcher are known in Parks Victoria heritage collections. Canvas and bamboo stretcher with straps and buckles. Hemp ropes are attached to the stretcher.

Handwritten page and typed copy of same, of happenings at the North Johnsons and on the back North Garden. Written on page: North Johnsons, Copy our from M/M Reports. Cage stuck 26/10/1900, Scarcity of water 6/1/1899 9/11/1900, Boiler at Rose taken down etc 28/10/1899, Old workings giving trouble 14/10/1898, 8/7/1898 No ladderway, slack ropes fouled - cage etc at 485 ft., 7/6/1901 Water 3,000 gals a day, 2360 feet 2/3/1900 Miner burnt Candle (Gas?). On the back: North Garden, G. Armstrong ?, E'House open, Machinery, 16/6/1881 Old W. Wigley as watchman. 3/11/1881 Engine man Toy let 5 men into the well through carelessness. (Discharged.) Got another man - Grey. He could not manage it. Now have Syme ? Cannot say much about him yet. Half Yearly Report. 26/1/1882. New Plant. All work suspended to put in new machinery. Pair of 20'' cyl. For winding. 12 inch Ford Compressor, New Poppet Legs & Brace & Quartz shoots. Av. Of 13 1/2 dwts from new reef at 1320 '. Albert Richardson Collection. document, gold, north johnsons mine, north johnsons mine, north garden, happenings at the north johnsons mine and north garden, m/m reports, g armstrong, w wigley, engine man toy, grey, syme?, ford compressor

Handwritten extracts and typed copies of same, from the New Chum Railway Mine Manager's Report 17/2/03. Mine Manager W Hicks. Extracts: Machinery. New Boiler is giving every satisfaction. While bailing water after the Xmas holidays, one of the ropes broke with a full tank of water. The tank being fitted with safety appliances, acted. Therefore no damage was done to the shaft. The old ropes were taken off and replaced by two new ones of 2,500 feet each, with a breaking strain of 34 tons. Mine 7 machinery are all in good working order. 1925 - Portion of Cath. Reef battery sold to Big Blue. Albert Richardson Collectiondocument, gold, new red white & blue mine, new red white & blue mine, new red white & blue mine manager's report 17/2/03, w hicks, cath reef battery

One page document 'Extract from Dickers Mining Record, Strength of ropes Vol.1, No. 5, March 1862, page 3, 'Square the circumference in inches, and multiply by 200. The product is the weight in pounds the rope will bear in safety' Also, 'A question of some importance to miners'. A co-operative company had agreed that every shareholder working in the mine of the Great Redan Extended Coy shall bring two suits of clothes before he be allowed to work in the mine and shall proceed to the shifting room allotted to him and then shall put on his working clothes and on leaving work shall proceed to the shanty, and there change his clothes, and permit the officer appointed by the company to search the clothes in which he shall have worked. Any person not complying with this rule shall have a man work in his place and such person shall not be allowed to go down below. The wages of the man shall be deducted from the dividends of the shareholder. When taken to court, his Honor ruled in Favour of the company. Each party to pay his own costs. He said that all classes when going through the Custon's Houses had to submit for the general good. It was not the individual in the present issue, but the clothes that were submitted to the indignity of being searched.bendigo, mining, strength of mining ropes

Four-page typed document plus location map. The United Hustlers and Redan mine was located in the North Bendigo, Long Gully area on the Hustlers line of reef. The lease was 153 acres and included Holdsworth, Holmes, Havilah Roads and Wood Street. The Redan shaft was 1,830ft and the South or K.K. Shaft was 1,960 ft. Poppet legs steel 71 ft high. Features of the plant are described including the engine house, winding engine, air compressor, boilers, fuel, winding ropes.bendigo, mining, united hustlers and redan mine

Handwritten notes, with typed transcript of same, on Catherine Reef United Mine Manager, J. M. Eyre Report 20/5/'72. Recommends the purchase of a new boiler. S. Jackson killed in a boiler explosion which the jury said was due to an error of judgement on his part. Recommendations, re New Winding Engine and Poppet Legs by Rbt. Coakes 18th May, 1905. Truck road from the shaft to the battery. Recommendation to call for tenders for a new changing house and a blacksmith shop. Reports about boilers, ropes, cleaning of machinery, testing of brakes, slack coal from the Powlett North Woolamai Collieries, crushings, number of batteries, low wood supply and a visit to the New Moon & South New Moon which are burning the Powlett slack coal. Albert Richardson Collectiondocument, gold, mining reports, mining reports, catherine reef united mine managers reports, j m eyre, myrtle creek coy, s jackman, rbt coakes, great northern co, virginia co, mr roberts, mr harkness, mr mcgrath, ernest mueller, roberts & sons, mr bennett, mr abrahams, mr sluyterman, j langdon, electrical supply coy, smiths, powlett north woolamai collieries, m j gwatkins, new moon, south new moon

Handwritten excerpts from Mine Manager's Reports from January 1880 to May 1884. Mine Manager Mr. J Alderson. Items mentioned: telephones, mechanical breakdowns, air supply, trouble with flat ropes, water problems, leaning and testing boiler engines.document, gold, new chum & victoria lines of reef, new chum railway mine manager's report 1880 - 84, mr j alderson, o'rourke and henderson, allingham, aitkens, pandora, richard heals, flat ropes, young chum co, horwood's, old chum, harkness, crushing mill, g armstrong, roberts & sons, eureka coy

Handwritten notes on New Chum & Victoria Mine Manager's Report. Dates 1878 and 1879. Wm. H. Grainger Mine Manager. Items mentioned are: amount of firewood, winding engine, mishap towinding gear, winding engine driver mistake, flat ropes, rope breaking, Directors deciding to replace flat ropes with round ropes, water laid on from main to mine, Directors decided to throw out present winding gear, old machinery being pulled down and all work stopped except repairs to shaft and alterations to pithead pulleys.document, gold, new chum & victoria lines of reef, new chum & victoria mine manager's report, wm h grainger, messrs mitchell of melbourne, north old chum, mitchell & osborne, middleton safety hooks, ar

various 1898 company letterhead receipts which J.H. Abbott used to access supplies2403.86 (A to G) Abbott Collection: Jan to Jun 1893: records and receipts for purchases by J.H. Abbott & Co. from a wide range of generally Melbourne based companies 2403.87A: J.H. Abbott's issued 46 invoices for their Edinburgh Tannery 1 July - 24 December 1898 2403.87B: 18 invoices Thomas P. Power, Saddler Ironmonger & Manufacturer; 5 July - 28 December 1898 2403.87C: 12 (blue) invoices Thomas McPherson & Son, Machinery & Iron Merchants; 9 July - 17 December 1898 2403.87D: 23 invoices The India Rubber Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. 11 August - 29 September 1898 2403.87E: 30 invoices & 5 credit notes Edward Keep & Co, Wholesale Ironmongers & Importers of Carriage Materials; 6 July - 23 December 1898 2403.87F: 16 invoices Ullathorne & Co, materials; 12 July - 28 December 1898 2403.87G: 5 invoices Tuck & Co. Limited, manufacturers of asbestos goods for every description; 28 July - 27 October 1898 2403.87H: 3 invoices Banks & Company, importers and wholesalers; 6 July - 11 November 1898 2403.87I: 2 invoices John Danks & Son, Sheet Lead, Lead, Compo. & Tin Plate; 18 August - 22 August 1898 2403.87J: 6 invoices M. Donahy & Sons, Manufacturers of Steam-Laid flat & Round Ropes. 14 September - 10 November 1898 2403.87K: 17 invoices Reid Brothers & Russel, importers of Mines and Engineering Furnishings, 15 September - 22 December 1898 2403.87L: 2 invoices A. Spooner & Co., manufacturers of a wide range of goods; 30 August - 22 October 1898 2403.87M: 5 invoices Charles Aitkins & Co., manufacturers, refiners and importers of Lubricating Oils, Antifriction Grease, Machine Belting, Engine Packings etc.; 17 August - 31 December 1898 2403.87N: 2 invoices E. L. Yencken & Co. Oil Color and Glass Merchants; 14 August - 23 December 1898 2403.87O: 3 invoices Morris & Meeks, Wholesalers Ironmongers & Machinery Merchants; 24 November - 6 December 1898 2403.87P: 8 invoices Felton Grimwade Co.: 22August - 16 December 1898 2403.87Q: 12 invoices N. Gutheridge & Co., Wholesale Saddlers, Saddlers, Ironmongers & Importers; 6 July - 21 December 1898 2403.87R: 2 invoices John Perry., Timber Merchant, Coach Builders, Ironmongery & Wheelwrights' Materials; 19 & 30 November 1898 2403.87S: 34 invoices Frank Vial & Co., Universal Leather Belt Factory; 7 July - 23 December 1898trade company purchases 1893

Significant to mining history of Bendigo.Black and white photograph: six workmen positioning the metal sinking cage over the Napoleon shaft. Cage is suspended by ropes from the cross beams of the headframe. Two railway tracks leading to shaft, presumably to transport the sinking cage to site. Workman on left hand side has a hammer inserted on his belt.Written in pencil on back of photograph : ' Cage being put in Napoleon shaft 9/3/35'. napoleon gold mine, sinking cage, shaft

Significant to mining history of Bendigo.Black and white photographs: winder. Winder inside corrugated iron shed. Two winder wheels, metal framework on right hand side. (a) Winding wheels erected 1/7/35, three men inspecting various aspects of the machinery. (b) Winder in shed, side view with two men putting on winder ropes. Written in pencil on back of photographs : (a) 'Napoleon winder 1/7/35. (b) Napoleon winder putting on ropes 30.8.35. napoleon gold mine, winder, bedplate

Handwritten report from T. Banner, Mine Manager to Williams United, dated August 8, 1904, at request of Directors. Report is for the machinery at the York Shaft. Report mentions drums, ropes, length of rope on the drums, boiler which cannot work with safety up to more than 45 lbs., a good bend in the stack about 25 or 30 feet from the top and new wheels necessary. Also a report on the machinery at Central. Report mentions engine, drums, engine bed lifting a bit when bailing from the bottom, poppet legs, ropes and boiler.document, gold, mining reports, mine manager's report to williams united, t banner, york shaft, central